Muhammad Hayat was born in 1932 in district Jhelum. He was popularly known as Tanveer Sipra, which later became his pen name. He was not from a well off family so he started working as a laborer after his school education at a very early age. After partition he moved to Pakistan and continued doing the same work for ten years in Karachi. After that he started a general store, which he ran for two years in Jhelum. In 1959 he joined a tobacco company in Jhelum. Lafz Jhurdure is the collection of his poetry. He passed away on 13 December 1993 in Islamabad.