Career
He wrote his autobiography named Mehr Beeti, recalling his early years in Phoolpur, Maulana says, "I feel we were living in paradise. Suddenly uprooted from there we had the feeling of wandering into a desert." Mehr Beeti provides graphic descriptions of Phoolpur’s culture and that of adjoining villages. He got his primary education from Primary school of Khambra.
Then he got admission in Mission High school in jalandhar City.
After his school years in Jalandhar, he enrolled at Islamia College (Lahore), where he developed a fondness for the city. He found Lahore to be culturally different from Delhi and Lucknow.
Maulana felt that while Delhi and Lucknow were steeped deep in Eastern culture, Lahore was a happy blend of the East and the West. At the same time, Maulana Mehr was deeply involved in developments on the political front.
Maulana Mehr also spent some time in Hyderabad.
And it was in Hyderabad that he turned his attention from poetry to prose. This practice proved helpful when he started his journalism career with an editorial published in the Daily Zamindar (newspaper). Soon Maulana joined the paper and was in the thick of the battle going on in the name of freedom and Tehrik-i-Khilafat (Khilafat Movement).
He had already joined Hizbullah, an organisation started by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
In fact, Azad was an important influence on Maulana Mehr and the latter drew inspiration from what was published in First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hilal (newspaper). Maulana Mehr has made a brief survey of different movements, political as well as religious, which were going on in those times, and given his judgments on them.
Circumstances did not allow him to complete his memoirs. So we might see them as a scattered autobiography offering us a lot from literature to politics
At the end of his days, Maulana Mehr decided to record his life for the benefit of future generations.
Mohammad Hamza Farooqi has compiled and brought out the volume called Mehr Beeti.
lieutenant has been published by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Faisal Nashran, Lahore. lieutenant was at their ardent appeal that he agreed to recount his life story, from the early years to the end, including his devotion to causes close to his heart. This desire, according to him, was the consequence of the migration at the time of Partition, when they had to leave their land of birth, Phoolpur, a village in the district of Jalandhar.