Diyafat was a learned, literary, and poetic woman. She was one of the scholarly women of her time. She was born in Shiraz, and learned literature from Shaykh al-Mufid.1

After that she migrated to Karbala' where she began to learn jurisprudence and religious principles, and reached a high degree. Diyafat had verbal permission from Ayatullah Sayyid Shihab al-Din al-Mar'ashi to transmit traditions.2 Diyafat passed away in Karbala' in the year 1342 A.H., and was buried there. 'Allamah Murtada al-Kashmiri was one of her instructors on the traditions.3

• 1. Shaykh al-Mufid was a renowned literary man and poet. He lived in one of the chambers at Imamzadah Shah Chiraq (Ahmad Ibn Musa Ibn Ja'far). He was the teacher of Firsat al-Dawlah al-Shirazi, the author of the book al-'Ajam, and Sayyid Muhammad Maqdisi, a calligrapher and the author of Divan Hafiz Shirazi.
• 2. Al-Ijazah al-Kabirah, p. 247.
• 3. Al-Ijazah al-Kabirah, p. 247.