This paper impressed Syed Ahmad Khan so much that Shah Din was chosen, at the early age of twenty-six, to preside over the next session of the All-India Mohammedan Educational Conference in 1894.

After the All-India Muslim League was established, an active provincial branch was organised in the Punjab in November 1907 and Shah Din was elected its president.

[1] Under the Minto-Morley Reforms, he was appointed along with Mian Mohammad Shafi, Umar Hayat Tiwana and Chaudhary Shahab-ud-din to the Punjab Council.

[1] These western-educated leaders, drawn from the Muslim middle and upper classes, were marked by their progressive and liberal views.

His appointment as a judge would however curtail his political ambitions and he resigned as president of the Punjabi branch of the All-India Muslim League.