The earliest recorded account of Hazrat Babajan, who was named at birth Gulrukh, "Face like a Rose", states that she "is the daughter of one of the ministers of the Amir of Afghanistan".[1] Later accounts report that Babajan "hails from Afghanistan … and was the daughter of a well-to-do Afghan of noble lineage";[2] "born to a royal Muslim family of Baluchistan."[3][4] The precise date of Babajan’s birth is unclear.