In an interview in 1351, he said about this: “My grandmother was one of those two-fire worshippers, and under the influence of her spiritual atmosphere, I became a real Muslim from the age of seven to fifteen. I never stopped praying and fasting. […] But from the age of fifteen onwards, just when my prayers and fasting were counted, a doubt entered my heart.” With his father, who knew Persian music well, he started playing the centaur, and then he got acquainted with the classical Maghrib music and started playing the piano and writing pieces for the piano.