Mustafa grew up in a remote village in Wayanad district of Kerala which had neither electricity nor roads. His family lived on the meagre earnings of his father who stopped studying after Class 4 and worked as a coolie on a coffee plantation. He is the eldest and have three younger sisters. His mother Fathima never went to school. He was poor in studies and failed in Class VI, this failure make him totally uninterested in going to school. But he knows the reality, if he doesn’t study he has to work with his father in farm as colie, which struck him. He decided to went back to school. From then with his hard work soon he became the good student and stood first in the school in Class 10. But as he is from a weak financial background, to support his further study his father don’t have money. He got admission at the Farooq College in Kozhikode where one of his father's friend, arranged for a free meal scheme in the college charity hostel as he could not afford to pay. Nat