He served as the head of Darul Ifta Wal Irshad, a jurisprudential institute of the Darul Uloom Karachi and authored books such as Anwaar-ur-Rasheed, Jawahir-ur-Rasheed and Allah Ke Baghi Musalman.

His religo-legal edicts were compiled and published as Ahsan ul-Fatawa in ten volumes.

[2] Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband where his teachers included Husain Ahmed Madani.

He established Al Rashid Trust, now called the Aid Organization of the Ulema.

[6] He was also a notable supporter of the Afghan Taliban, and after he returned with "extremely positive impressions" from Afghanistan and wrote a book as advice for the Talibans, titled Obedience to the Amir and composed in 1998 or 1999, Mullah Omar was so impressed that he distributed Pashto and Dari versions of it to the visitors, saying it perfectly represented the Talibans’ ideology,[7] while Barnett Rubin states that this "manual on how to run a militant organization" helped the Taliban "devise an organizational model that suppressed tribalism and patronage network more effectively than any other organization in Afghanistan.