Sayyed Mohammad Bashir Badr was born into a Muslim family at Ayodhya, in India. This city is known for its cultural and religious history. Bashir was the fourth child of Sayyed Nazir and Aaliya Begum. His father was an Assistant Accountant in the Indian Police and highly respected in the community.

Bashir Badr did his schooling from Halim College, Kanpur. He completed his high schooling in the yr 1949 from Islamiya College, Itawa.

He knows Persian, Hindi and English as well. It is believed that he started writing Shers at an early age of seven. He has brought out more than seven collections of poems in Urdu and one in Hindi. He has seven collections of Ghazals: ‘Ikai’, ‘Image’, ‘Aamad’, ‘Aahat’, ‘Kulliyate Bashir Badr’, etc.