Born in 1904 to a very religious family in Jammu (now under Indian occupation). Dr. Rafi-ud-Din wrote his first celebrated book “Ideology of the Future” in 1942. For this work of the Punjab University Conferred the degree PhD in Philosophy on him in 1949. In 1953 he has appointed as the first director of Iqbal Academy by the Government of Pakistan and retired from there in 1965. During the same year the Punjab University conferred upon him the degree of D. Litt in educational philosophy for his another book “First Principles of Education”.
Earlier Dr. Mohammad Rafi-ud-Din had served as Professor of Arabic and Persian and as Principal in the Jammu and Kashmir education service before his migration to Pakistan on the partition of British India.
After his migration to Pakistan, he served as research officer first in the Department of Islamic Reconstruction and the in the institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore.
Basically a scholar of Arabic and Persian, Dr Mohammad Rafi-Ud-Din wrote remarkable books on philosophy and obtained doctorates for them and thus earned the rare honor to be genius.
Dr Mohammad Rafi-Ud-Din was an accomplished scholar well versed both in western thought and Islamic literature. In particular he was a keen student of Quranic wisdom and believed that the core of teachings of Islam enshrined in the Holy Quran and the Sunna can meet the challenge of all ages. Mohammad Rafi-Ud-Din critically studies the major anti-religious Ideologies of this period and convincingly established the veracity of the Islamic doctrines and the falsity of these ideologies. Darwin, McDougall, Freud, Adler and Karl Marks were the most influential thinkers of this period who helped shape the mind of the modern man not only in the West but also of those obsessed by western thinking across the globe. Late Dr Mohammad Rafi-Ud-Din exposed their fundamental flaws and weaknesses and gave what is no doubt the final refutation of their theories.
Dr Mohammad Rafi-Ud-Din wrote for Muslims who have lost the very foundations of his society; he operated in alien political structures, social organizations, cultural environment and mode of production that bears no relationship to anything in Muslim history. His task then was very difficult. Because of his services to the cause of Islam late Dr Mohammad Rafi-Ud-Din had achieved of his services to the cause of islam late Dr Rafi-Ud-Din had achieved international fame even during his life. He had a rare and rich gift for precision and thoroughness, commanded a facile pen and sometimes rose to miraculous heights of eloquence while expressing serious philosophical propositions.
Intellectuals like Maulana Maududi, Maulana Abul-ul-Hassan Ali Nadvi, Maulana Abdul Majid Darya Abadi and Dr. Syed Zafarul Hassan appreciated his services to Islam and knowledge. Non-Muslim Philosophers like Dr Radha Krishnen, Professor Lille and Warren Steinkruss also recognized his achievements in learning and considered him at par with Martin Luther King and E.S Bright Man. Maulana Abdul-Majid Darya-Abadi considered him as the greatest philosopher after Allama Iqbal in the sub-continent. He died of a road accident in Karachi on November 29, 1964 and was buried by the side of his Father’s grave in Sialkot according to his own will. His photograph engraved on the stone of Hamdard Markaz. Delhi in recognition of his services to Islam.