Speaker: Maulana Shamshad Salfi
Location: Jamia Masjid Ahle Hadith Sher Rabbani Town, Okara
Sect: Ahle hadith
Language: Urdu
Time: April 2010

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The country we live in is Pakistan today but in old days the Arabs used to call it Hind. Hind and Sindh were two brothers.

They were in the fourth generation of Hazrat Nuh (Noah). When did Islam come to Hind and Sindh? People will tell you all sorts of nonsense, that Islam was brought by the Sufi wanderers or the wali saints. Wali and Sufi are great words and we are enslaved by them. We have not done our investigation and have accepted as truth that Islam came through the wali and the Sufi.

We don’t even know how the term Sufi and wali originated. People started saying where were the Ahle Hadith because before the British Raj they had no madrassas and no mosques in India. And there was no Ahle Hadith translation of the Quran.

Then the subject came to my notice and some people tried to twist facts by saying that Ahle Hadith are the product of British Raj. It became so bad that people started saying that we were nothing but the creation of the British.

Let me tell you about the village of naktas (people with noses cut off). When two men with normal noses passed by this village the naktas became alarmed and said if these people go to the city and reveal that our village contains only naktas we will be ruined. They went to their elders and said that our secret will be out through these two. What should we do?

The elders said don’t be excited when they start coming towards you say from a distance that naktas have come to our village. They will be stricken with shame and will run away. This is what happened to the Ahle Hadith of this region.

We know the date of birth of the Deobandis. Darul Ulum Deoband was established in 1866 or 1868. Out of this place was born the sect of Deobandis. Now look at this irony, those whose date of birth we know (under British Raj) should tell us that we were the product of the British and that no one knows our date of birth. This is the condition of naktas.

Please don’t fight for my sake but support me with evidence. My challenge to the opponents is that they who are Hanafis (Ahle Hadith are not Hanafi) should tell me when the first Hanafi came to India and I will tell them what the date of birth of the Ahle Hadith is or when was it that the first Ahle Hadith landed here.

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