The Punjab was a center of literary activity at the time, and Mehjoor had the chance to express himself via his Urdu rhymes, which led to his poetic moniker, Mehjoor. He was also known as Mian Muhammad Shafi Allah Dehlavi, after the ancestor of his family who was a religious scholar in India. Mehjoor lived in a period when the culture of poetry was popular among the people of South Asia, especially in India. Thus, he got to know about his cousin's fame and decided to become a poet too. When he did so, he used characters from daily life as his subjects. These included birds, animals, flowers, and even the clothes worn by people of his time. People called him Mehjoor because he used to compose poems on various topics every day. But unlike other poets who used their talent to praise God or famous people, Mehjoor wrote poems about objects that could have any meaning for anyone. This made him special and earned him many fans across the region. He died at a young age but still managed to compose many poems. Today, his family is still looking for good singers who can recite his poems on stage in order to make some money but so far no one has been able to do so.