Hajira is the daughter of Saifullah Ansari and granddaughter of Maulana Mansoor Ansari (Muhammad Mia) a renowned religious scholar, philosopher and thinker of the East. He was a freedom fighter and strategist who started the Silken Litters Movement during the British occupation of the region. Her great grandfather was Maulana Abdullah Ansari, who served as head of religious studies at Aligarh University, India.
Hajira is a direct descendant of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006-1088) and is 29th in line from him. Khwaja was a great Afghan Sofi Poet, Scholar and Philosopher, known and respected as Pir-e Herat (Pious of Herat) and Shaikhul Mashayekh (Master of Masters) who lived and died in Herat, Afghanistan. Khwaja Abdullah Ansari left several books in Islamic mysticism, philosophy and literature in Arabic and Farsi such as "Munajat Namah" (literally 'Litanies or dialogues with God'), a masterpiece of Farsi literature. It is believed that the poetic and literary talent emerges even centuries latter amongst ones offspring, perhaps, Hajira is getting it from her ancestors too.
Hajira is a direct descendant of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006-1088) and is 29th in line from him. Khwaja was a great Afghan Sofi Poet, Scholar and Philosopher, known and respected as Pir-e Herat (Pious of Herat) and Shaikhul Mashayekh (Master of Masters) who lived and died in Herat, Afghanistan. Khwaja Abdullah Ansari left several books in Islamic mysticism, philosophy and literature in Arabic and Farsi such as "Munajat Namah" (literally 'Litanies or dialogues with God'), a masterpiece of Farsi literature. It is believed that the poetic and literary talent emerges even centuries latter amongst ones offspring, perhaps, Hajira is getting it from her ancestors too.
