He married Akhtar Kabir in 1960, with whom he had three daughters; Seema, Almas and Shiraza; and four sons; Khalid, Sajid, Faraz and Sameer.

[2] In 1950, Kabir worked in the Food and Marketing Department of the central government in Delhi, where he met other poets such as Ali Sardar Jafri, Zuber Rizvi and Naresh Kumar Shad.

His ghazal, Uski gali mein phir mujhe ek baar len chalo, has been sung and popularised by many singers including Rais Khan, Munni Begum, Chandan Dass, Salman Alvi and the Sabri brothers.

A collection of his geet, ghazals and nazm, Us Ki Gali, was compiled by Sameer Kabeer in Devanagari and Urdu script and published in 2014.

His poems have been included in Urdu textbooks in India's 12th standard curriculum as prescribed by the Maharashtra State Board of Education.