He added: "In those days I used to spend a good deal of my time in the company of Majnun Gorakhpuri and Munshi Premchand.
Other notable short story writers like Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto also took inspiration from him.
[1] Ismat Chughtai once admitted publicly and acknowledged that she used to practice short story writing by emulating Majnun Gorakhpuri's style, before she actually started her own literary career.
[1] Literary Criticism Adab aur zindagi: Majnun Gorakhpuri ki chand tanqidat ka majmu'ah, tarmim-o-izafah ke sath (1944)[1] Iqbal: Ijmali tabsirah (1945) Tanqidi hashiye: Tanqidi mazamin ka majmu'ah (1945)[1] Nuqūsh-O-Afkār (1955) Sher Aur Ghaazal (1962) Adab Aur Zindagī ; Majnoon, Ahmad Siddiq (1964) Ghazal Sara (1964) Ghālib : Shakhs Aur Shāir, (Karāchī : Maktabah-i Arbāb-i Qalam, 1974)[2] Armaghān-I-Majnūn (1980, 1984)[2] Jamaliat (aesthetics) Masnavi-i-Zahr-i ishq, Mirza Shauq : tabsire by Majnun Gorakhpuri and Mohsin Faruqi; (digar rumani dastanen, Mohsin Faruqi tazkirah va tanqid) Criticism and interpretation on Zahr-i-ishq, poetical work written in 1855 by Mirzā Shauq; includes criticism on different folk tales by Mohsin Fārūqī.
Pardesi ke Khutut Collections of Short stories Translations: He also edited 'Aivan' literary journal/magazine from Gorakhpur 1931-35.