Ghamidi and his two elder sisters grew up in a Sufi household. His father, Muhammad Tufayl Junaydi, was a landowner, involved in medicine and a committed follower of tasawwuf until his death in 1986. His family village settlement was Dawud in Sialkot. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi was born as Muhammad Shafique (Later he renamed himself as Javed Ghamdi)on 7 April 1952 to a Kakazai family in a village called Jivan Shah (near Pakpattan) in District Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi was named in The Muslim 500 (The World's Most Influential Muslims) in the 2019, 20 editions. Currently he is Principal Research Fellow and Chief Patron of Ghamidi Center of Islamic Learning in United States. He is running an intellectual movement similar to Wasatiyyah, on the popular electronic media of Pakistan.
He was also a student of Islamic scholar and exegete, Amin Ahsan Islahi.
He also taught Islamic studies at the Civil Services Academy for more than a decade from 1979 to 1991. He became a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology (responsible for giving legal advice on Islamic issues to the Pakistani Government and the country's Parliament) on 28 January 2006, where he remained for a couple of years. He is also the founding President of Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences and its sister organisation Danish Sara. Jāvēd Ahmed Ghāmidī ( Urdu: جاوید احمد غامدی) (born Ap) is a Pakistan Muslim theologian, Quran scholar, Islamic modernist, exegete and educationist.