She was raised in British India, since her father had been exiled there by Abdur Rahman Khan.
It was the custom of the monarch to have four official wives and a large number of unofficial wives as well as slave concubines in the harem of the royal Palace complex in Kabul.
Having been raised in British India, she dressed in Western fashion, which was well seen by Habibullah Khan who wished all of his wives to dress in Western fashion, though they only did so inside of the royal palace complex.
She spoke Urdu, and has been referred to as the first woman to make a translation from Urdu to Dari when she translated 'Al-Farooq, a life of the Caliph Omar, companion of the Prophet Mohammed', which was finished and published after her death by Najaf Ali Khan 1932.
[1] Her spouse died in 1919 and her brother succeeded to the throne in 1929.