Early Life and Education
Ahmad was born on 26 April 1932 in Hisar (a providence of Punjab, now a part of Haryana) in India, the second son of a government servant (late) Sheikh Mukhtar Ahmad who migrated from India in 1947 and got settled in Montgomery ( now Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan). He graduated from King Edward Medical University (Lahore) in 1954 and later received his Master's degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi in 1965. He came under the influence of 'Abul Ala Maududi' and 'Allama Muhammad Iqbal' as a young student, worked briefly for Muslim Student's Federation in the Independence Movement and, following the creation of Pakistan in 1947, for the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba and then for the Jamaat-e-Islami. Ahmad resigned from the Jama`at in April 1957 because of its involvement in the electoral politics, which he believed was irreconcilable with the revolutionary methodology adopted by the Jama'at in the pre-1947 period.
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