She belonged to a Bengali Muslim zamindar family from Niamatbari in Kushtia and traced her lineage to Sheikh Saifullah.
[2] Her father, Khan Bahadur Mohammad Sulaiman, was employed as the deputy collector of Rajshahi Division and was also a school inspector who supported women's literary movement.
Although her father was a proponent of female education, she could only study till Class 8 and was married off at a young age.
She also traveled to many places, which inspired her to write about themes like nature, environment, culture and society.
She was deeply moved by the woes caused by the two World Wars and advocated for peace in her poems.