Dani was born in a Muslim family in Shkodër, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire, son of Hasan and Baftje.
With the suppression of the Noli's movement and return in power of Ahmet Zogu, he fled Albania, first to Italy, then to Zadar in Yugoslavia and settled in Vienna.
In 1945, after the liberation of Albanian and end of World War II, he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Shkodër District.
The communists claimed that intelligence reports had placed Dani inside the committee that organized the failed Rebellion of Postribe in September 1945.
The Soviet representative in Albania, Dmitri Chuvakhin, was also not convinced by the allegations presented to him on this matter in a report by Koçi Xoxe.