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Love for debate:
At that time, my Ghair Muqallid teacher was Maulana Abdul Jabbar Muhaddith Khandelwi. He called for me and said that “I have heard that students of Allama Anwar Shah have arrived. We have to debate with them.”

I said, “Hadhrat! What can they do? Even if Imam Abu Hanifa (Rahmatullahi Alaih) comes out of his grave, even he won’t be able to compete with us (God forbid). We have hadeeth, they have qiyas (analogy). My teacher became very pleased with this, he supplicated for me, and then he gave me an advertisement. Its title was “An open challenge to all of the Hanafis of the world for a reward of 100,000 Rs.”

He told me to take this paper, and that victory will be yours.

In the Eid Gaah:
These two elders were staying at the madrasa of Eid Gaah. I saw that Hadhrat Maulana Abdul Hanan Sahib was surrounded by many people, while Hadhrat Maulana Abdul Qadeer Saheb was surrounded by fewer people. I deduced that Maulana Abdul Hanan Saheb was the bigger scholar of the two. I came and sat behind him, and I began to touch Hadhrat’s shoulder, then his head. Hadhrat looked towards me a few times and remained quiet. The fourth time, he asked me, “What do you do?”

I was also looking for an opportunity. Immediately I took out the advertisement and spread it in front of him, and I said, “Hadhrat, the Ahl Hadeeth people are really troubling us. They also offer 1000 Rs per hadith, but our scholars don’t have any hadith. Please help us and write the hadiths which have the answer for these eleven questions.”

Hadhrat said, “I have not been teaching in Punjab for too long. My Urdu is not very correct. Maulana Abdul Qadeer Saheb has been teaching in Punjab mostly, and his Urdu is very good, and he has an interest in these issues. Go and ask him.”

I stood up and started walking towards Maulana Abdul Qadeer Saheb, while Hadhrat called out to Mawlana, “The boy is very intelligent. Please make him understand the issues. I am very hopeful from Allah Ta’la that In’sha Allah the dirt will come out in the first attempt.”

Upon Hadhrat’s call, Maulana took the advertisement from my hand and began to read it. Maulana was reading the paper, and I was reading Maulana’s face. Sometimes he would smile a little bit, other times his forehead would show signs of anger. In any case, Maulana read the entire paper.

Intention:
First of all, Hadhrat said, “My son, correct your intention. When a person asks a question with the intention of understanding the ruling of the religion so that he can act upon it, then he receives a reward for asking, and a separate reward for acting upon it. And if a person asks a question with the intention of causing mischief and fitna, then he will receive a sin for asking, and a separate sin for the mischief.”

Then he said, “I will explain the rulings to you with the sole intention of seeking Allah’s pleasure, and nothing more.

I replied, “I also want to understand for the sake of the pleasure of Allah.”