[1][better source needed] Other than being a distinguished bearer of Islamic thought in modern Bengal, his poetry is also significant for its diction and literary value.

His grandmother gave him the daak naam of Ramzan, as his birth coincided with the month of Ramadan in the Islamic calendar.

He was the second son of police inspector Khan Sahib Syed Hatem Ali and Begum Roushan Akhter.

He then enrolled at the prestigious Scottish Church College to pursue a BA (Hons) in philosophy and English literature, but was unable to his complete studies there.

[2] As a student, Farrukh Ahmad had been attracted to the radical humanism of Manabendra Nath Roy and had participated in leftist politics.