In 1506, he emigrated with his family to Mashhad, but after a short time they came back to Herat and stayed there.
Then he started working as a calligrapher in the court of Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara.
After Habibollah's murder, when Sam Mirza Safavi, the brother of Tahmasp I, was the governor of Khorasan, Mir Ali Heravi was in Herat for 3 years until 1528.
[2] Because of homesickness and obligatory emigration to Bukhara and being far from family, Heravi lived in this city under depression and sadness.
Zein od-Din Mohammad learned calligraphy himself from Soltan Ali Mashhadi.