[2] Rahman was born in 1860 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Charbeltail in Shahzadpur, Sirajganj, then a part of the Pabna District of the Bengal Presidency.

[3] During Rahman's tenure as a teacher in Salanga, he played a key role in the protest that lead to the withdrawal of the local Hindu Zamindar's ban on eating beef.

[4] Inspired by the notion of a free nation during this time, he published his first collection of essays in the book named Bilati Barjan Rahasya (1904).

[4] Prominent Muslim Bengali author Ismail Hossain Siraji inspired him to get involved in literary activities.

He felt the oppression of Bengali Muslims by British Indian administrators in the context of the Partition of Bengal in 1905.