 Zeb-un-Nissa was her father's favourite daughter, and because of this she could compel him to pardon people who had offended him.Aurangzeb charged Hafiza Mariam, one of the women of the court, with the education of Zeb-un-Nissa.She seems to have inherited her father's keenness of intellect and literary tastes because Zeb-un-Nissa memorized the Quran in three years and became a "Hafiza" at age seven.