[1] Muhammad Wakkas was born on 15 January 1952, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bijayrampur in Manirampur, Jessore District, East Bengal.

He studied for his Kamil degree at the Bahadurpur Shariatia Alia Madrasa in Madaripur and was the highest scorer for his exam board for that too, in 1971.

[1] Tajammul Ali, his teacher and also the khalifa of Hussain Ahmed Madani, advised him to study at the Darul Uloom Deoband in North India.

He remained in Deoband for four years, topped the exams for Mawquf Alayhi (1973), Takmil-e-Ulum-e-Diniyat (1975) and Ifta (1976), and gained the title of Mufti.

After the fall of Ershad's Jatiya Party, Wakkas stood for the 1991 Bangladeshi general elections as a candidate under the Islami Oikya Jote alliance.

At the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election, he stood up once more as Jatiya Party candidate but failed to defeat Khan Tipu Sultan.