The Maulavi Aftab-ud-Din Ahmad was closely associated with the work and progress of the Woking Muslim Mission and Literary Trust, Woking, England, from 1931 till he breathed his last.

Born in January 1901 in the village of Tola, Burdwan, India, he received his early education in the home town of Burdwan. After getting his Bachelor of Arts with distinction in 1923 from the Presidency College, Calcutta, he grew more and more conscious of the fallen condition of the Muslims of India with whose political life he had come into contact as a result of his working voluntarily for the Khilafat Movement for about four years. This awakened in him the desire to have a first-hand knowledge of Islam. He joined the famous religious seminary of Deoband, near Delhi, where he studied under such renowned scholars as the late Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani for one-and-a-half years. In his search for a more up-to-date interpretation of Islam he now turned himself to the late [Maulana] Muhammad Ali, the first Indian Muslim translator of the Holy Quran into English. He soon made up his mind to go to Lahore for a study of comparative religion under the guidance of eminent scholars like the late Muhammad Ali and others who had joined the band of the workers of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha‘at-i-Islam, Lahore, now in Pakistan.