[Aaron757]

In'shallah, the translation will be posted in parts. Very interesting book, and fun to read (only 15 pages)!

Here's the urdu
http://www.archive.org/download/Main...rOkarvir.a.pdf

How I became a Hanafi?
We praise Him and we send salutations on His noble Messenger…As for the rest:

We were living in the village when I was young. The question arose about where I should be sent to learn the Quran. There was one masjid in the village where almost every Friday, there was a fight. The Barelwis wanted their Imam to be appointed in the masjid, and the Ghair Muqallid wanted their Imam to be appointed. And there was only one family from the Deobandi maslak, which didn’t have any say in any matter. Whenever the fights would prolong, then there wouldn’t be any Imam in the masjid for upto six months, and sometimes, two congregations would take place for prayers. My father would always remain worried about this. Finally, he decided that Ghair Muqallid are better in Tawheed (monotheism) than the Ahle Bidat (innovators), so we will have our son study with them. So, I was sent to a ghair muqallid Hafiz Saheb for learning the Quran.

The method of Learning:
In school, I was studying in fifth grade, so I already knew the Arabic alphabet. So the first lesson with Hafiz Saheb was started from the first juz. Our teacher would make us repeat a few verses, and we would memorize them. After this, our teacher would tell us that I defeated so-and-so Hanafi Mufti, and I made so-and-so Hanafi scholar speechless. There is no Hanafi in the world, neither Deobandi nor Barelwi, who can compete with us. Then he would take an advertisement and tell us that, “Look! This advertisement is twenty years old. A challenge was published in it for all of the Hanafis of the world to show us only one Hadith in which the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said that today I have abrogated ‘Rafa Yadain’. Show us one hadith in which the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said that after a century, my deen will be abrogated and that Taqleed of Abu Hanifa will be made obligatory on my Ummat. This advertisement was sent to Deoband, but noone was able to show us any Hadith. We even offered rewards of thousands of rupees, but noone was able to answer us. Our teacher’s lies were enough to impress us simple students. But whenever he would also tell us that once on the way to Delhi, I stopped at Deoband and it was the time for prayers. All of the teachers and students were gathered in the masjid, so I stood up and showed them the advertisement telling them that this has been sent to your madrasa every year, so why don’t you send us the Hadith? Then our teacher would tell us that the teachers there, with great shame and embarrassment told me that we have never seen nor studied such a hadith. Why do you embarrass us by asking us for the hadith every time? After listening to our teacher’s claims, we would become completely hopeless, because we had heard from home that Deoband is a very big madrasa in the world. If our teacher has made even the teachers of Deoband speechless, then where will we get Ahadith from?