Bilal Saqib was born in June 1975 in western Canada to Pakistani immigrant parents. He became an immigrant in 1978 when his family moved to Texas. The subsequent years resulted in moves between Colorado, Utah, and Washington, only to return to Texas to finally settle down in Houston in 1997.

Bilal's writing career began when as a member of his high school literary magazine he wrote in excess of fifteen short stories and a hundred poems over a year and a half. Afer graduation his articles began to focus more on religion, philosophy, and political science and he wrote some five exploratory essays and seventy editorial letters during the latter half of the 1990s. Some of these letters were published in prominent magazines like Time, Newsweek, Traditions Magazine, and newspapers like Dawn Daily. He has traveled to remote parts of British Columbia in punishing winter weather and kept a detailed travelogue spanning 26 months which has become a source of infinite inspiration to him.

Bilal Saqib has stated that he has, "been blessed with a rare find and that is Sufism." During the past three years he has felt that there has been much that has been conveyed to him regarding the "associations with humans whose hearts outmatch the horizon in expanse and whose thoughts far outreach the ocean in depth."