His elder brother Prof. Syed Muhammad Ameen Mian Quadri is custodian of Marehra Shareef Dargah is counted among revered and influential Sufis.

The 'Philanthropic spiritual ambience of his home instilled into the young Ashraf the value system of Sufism love and brotherhood and a concern especially for the poor, needy and those in distress.

Another formative influence on the young Ashraf's mind was his easy, enviable access to the rich library of Khanquah-e-Barkaatiya, housing a treasure of Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit literary masterpieces.

More importantly, notwithstanding his preoccupation with literary activities and writing stories which gained wide acclaim on the University campus, he kept earning the highest academic distinctions by standing first in his BA (Hons.)

[3] In 2008, he was awarded membership of Bhasha Samiti for Saraswati Samman while in 2008 he was appointed as member, National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL).

Using animals as metaphors, the award-winning writer Syed Muhammad Ashraf, who qualified the Indian Administrative Service in his mother tongue, Urdu, has tried to get into the recesses of the human heart.