After receiving education at several Madrasa in Palu, Elazığ, Diyarbakır and Muş, he became the leader of the Naqshbandi order upon the death of his father.

[13] In 1923, he was approached by Yusuf Zia Bey, who wanted him to join the Kurdish secret organization Azadî.

The Azadi was to become a leading force in the Sheikh Said Rebellion[15] which began in February 1925 and starting from in Piran, soon spread as far as the surroundings of Diyarbakır.

[19] The Azadi was to become a leading force in the Sheikh Said Rebellion which began in February 1925 and starting from in Piran, soon spread as far as the surroundings of Diyarbakır.

Yusuf Ziya Bey, who confessed to the organization were Sheikh Said along with Halid Beg Cibran, Hasananlı Halit and Hacı Musa.

Traveling to the tribes in the eastern provinces, Sheikh Said made propaganda saying that the Republic and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were irreligious, that Islam, marriage, chastity and honour, and the Quran would be abolished with the laws passed, and that the lords and Hodjas would be executed or exiled.

[24] After wandering around Diyarbakır, Bingöl, Ergani and Genç regions for about a month, he settled in his brother's house in Dicle on February 13, 1925.

The uprising started ahead of schedule due to the conflict that broke out in Piran over the gendarmerie's attempt to arrest 5 criminals.

In February 1925, they moved into the Piran (today called Dicle) area to detain some Kurdish notables,[26] but were prevented by from it by men loyal to Sheikh Said.

[25] On 13 February 1925, Sheikh Said addressed the people in his sermon in the Piran mosque and stated:[27] The madrasahs were closed.

If I can do it today, I will start fighting myself and try to raise religion.Sheikh Said was elected as the next commander of the Kurdish independence movement gathered around Azadî and Darhini was declared the capital of Kurdistan on the 14 February 1925.

[25] Sheikh Said, who had taken the governor and the other officers captive while charging against Darhini (16 February), tried to gather the movement under a single center with a declaration urging the people to rise up in the name of Islam.

[29] After receiving the support of the tribes of Mistan, Botan and Mhallami, he headed to Diyarbakır via Genç and Çapakçur (today known as Bingöl) and captured Maden, Siverek and Ergani.

The next day, another uprising under the leadership of Sheikh Sharif, who entered Elazığ, kept the city under control for a short time.

[32] In one of the bigger engagements, in the night of 6–7 March, the forces of Sheikh Said laid siege to the city of Diyarbakırwith 5,000–10,000 men.

All of their attacks were repelled by the numerically inferior Turkish garrison, with the use of machine gun fire and mortar grenades.

The Turkish authorities, according to Martin van Bruinessen, crushed the rebellion with continual aerial bombardments and a massive concentration of forces.

[65] Sheikh Said and the other leaders of the revolt were very conscious of their Kurdish identity and had publicised their separatist motives, regardless of the heavy religious discourse.

Sheikh Said's brother, Abdurrahim, and others in the revolt openly declared their aim of establishing of an independent Kurdish state.

"[74] Sheikh Said claimed that even from a religious view, Turkish society practiced a "deceptive" form of Islam.

[83] However, the Sheikh Said revolt was a major turning point, as Turkey stopped its claim over the Mosul vilayet shortly after.

Qajar authorities were also worried as many Iranian Kurds were ready to fight against Turkey in support of Sheikh Said.

[87] However, Kurdish Alevis refused to join the revolt, claiming that they were better off in a secular Turkey than a Sunni Kurdistan.

[89][90] Seyit Abdülkadir, the leader of the Kurdish Teali Society and several of his friends who were accused of supporting the rebellion, were arrested in Istanbul and taken to Diyarbakır to be tried.

As a result of the trial, Seyit Abdulkadir and five of his friends were sentenced to death by the Independence Tribunal in Diyarbakır on 23 May 1925 and executed four days later.

The Independence Tribunal in Diyarbakir also imposed a death sentence on Sheikh Said and 47 riots rulers on the 28 June 1925.

The President of the Independence Tribunal in Diyarbakır that sentenced the rebels stated on 28 June 1925:Certain among you have taken as a pretext for revolt the abuse by the governmental administration, some others have invoked the defence of the Caliphate.

[95] At the beginning of the hardening of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, the Kurdish Hezbollah‘s concept of ideology was identical to that of Sheikh Said during his lifetime.