[5] His mother Khatun Dayerah was daughter of the famous Hasan Beg of the Jaff tribe, while his father Shaykh Isa, son of Seyyed Ali Barzanji Gorani,[5] was a Sufi leader.
He returned to Kurdistan and built a mosque in his native town Barzinjah to guide the local people.
[1] After the death of his father, the Sultan fell into a conflict with his brothers and he decided to settle in Sheykhan village in Avroman, where he refounded the Yarsan beliefs.
Of his followers, he chose four (Benyamin, Piri Musi, Dawud and Razbar) to carry out religious instructions.
[7] The main religious book Kalâm-e Saranjâm was written when Sultan Sahak lived in Sheykhan village.