Khalid Masud

Khalid Masud was a Muslim scholar of Pakistan who spent the major part of his life with Moulana Amin Ahsan Islahi. He conveyed the ideas and thoughts of his teacher and Imam Farhi to the general public. He wrote a number of books and articles and delivered lectures on Islam, science and other subjects. He was also a chemical engineer by profession but he devoted his life to serving the Farahi school of thought. He worked as in charge of Idara Taddabur e Qur'an o Hadith. He was born in Singhori village, Rawalpindi District, Punjab in 1935 and graduated from Punjab University in Chemistry in 1958. He obtained a Chemical Engineering Diploma from King's College London in 1965 and a Master's degree in Islamic Studies from Punjab University in 1975. He joined the Industries Department, Govt of Punjab in 1958 and worked there for 27 years. In 1985 he was offered the position of Research Scholar in Quaid e Azam Library, Lahore where he worked till his retirement in 1996. He died in Lahore in 2003 at the age of 67.