 He turned to teaching at the tender age of 19 as lecturer in Arabic at Government College Bahawalpur, from where he moved to Government College Sargodha and continued there up to 1984 when he became the principal of Government Ambala Muslim College Sargodha.In 1985 he proceeded on deputation to the Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad where he served as Chief Bureau of Translation for six years.In 1991 he became Head of the Department of Arabic at Government College Lahore (now a university), opting for a pre-mature retirement in 1995 in order to focus on his personal research pursuits.