Golam Moula was born on 20 October 1920 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Poragachha in Naria, then a part of the Faridpur district of colonial Bengal (now Shariatpur District, Bangladesh). His parents were Alhaj Abdul Ghafur Dhali and Chhutu Bibi. His education began at the Pachukhar Kandi Primary School in Jazira. He matriculated from the Naria Bihari Lal High School in 1939, passed ISC from Jagannath College, Dacca in 1941 and BSc in 1943.
