Her mother was a princess of the prominent Safavid dynasty of Persia and was a daughter of Mirza Badi-uz-Zaman Safavi, the Viceroy of Gujarat.
[4] She was educated by private tutors and scholars, and refused to marry, choosing to remain single her entire life.
Zinat was a partisan of her youngest step-brother, Muhammad Kam Bakhsh, for whom she gained pardon from her father on several occasions.
At the age of thirty-seven, she undertook a project to construct a number of inns of the highway linking Awadh with Bengal.
[6] She also had the Zeenat-ul-Masajid ("Ornament of Mosques") constructed at her expense in c.1700 by the riverside wall of the Red Fort in Delhi, where she was buried.