Shareef completed his matriculation in 1930 from a school in Kunjah and higher secondary in 1933 from Government Intermediate College, Jehlum.
By that time he had started writing poetry and was known as a progressive writer sympathetic to the Indian National Congress.
In 1959, he was hired as lecturer in Persian language at Government College, Campbellpur (now called Attock), Pakistan.
[3][2] He died on 20 January 2007 and was interred in the compound of Ghanimat Kunjahi's mazar in Kunjah, Gujrat District, Pakistan.
Even his earliest poems have all the elements of modern poetry: secularism, expression of individualist experience, awareness of social and political changes around him.
(Translation from Jagraate) Without being overburdened by excessive symbolism or extreme emotions, Kunjahi's poetry is a realistic and balanced expression of his social consciousness in a relatively simple and straightforward manner.
In a different field, his research in identifying many linguistic similarities in the Punjabi and Scandinavian languages is another pioneering piece of work.
Al-Quran ul Karim (Arabic-Punjabi) Sharif Kunjahi is available in UMT Lahore code is 61158 and 297-12259142 ALQ v-2.