Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar was born in 1928. He was a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, philanthropist, and Sufi mentor. in Pratapgarh. He was schooled in Pratapgarh and studied Persian with Qāri Muḥammad Siddīq in Sultanpur. He graduated from the State Unani Medical College Allahabad in 1944 where his teacher was Hakim Aḥmad Usmāni, the father of Hakim Hammad Usmani. He was inclined towards studying Islamic sciences and completed the traditional dars-e-Nizami at the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom in Sarai Mir in four years. He established the Jamiah Ashraful Madrāris in Karachi. He was an alumnus of the State Unani Medical College Allahabad and the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom, Sarai Mir. He was an authorized disciple of Abrarul Haq Haqqi. His works include Ma'ārif-e-Masnawi and Faizān-e-Muḥabbat. Akhtar died on 2 June 2013 in Karachi.