Maulana, Ande ki laathi is a book written in Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

, consisting of three written debates between Sunni and Wahabi scholars on the matter of shirk

Shirk (polytheism)

In Islam, shirk is the sin of idolatry or polytheism. i.e. the deification or worship of anyone or anything other than the singular God, or more literally the establishment of "partners" placed beside God...

 (polytheism) and bid'ah

Bid'ah

Bid‘ah is any type of innovation in Islam. It linguistically means "innovation, novelty, heretical doctrine, heresy". In contrast to the English term "innovation", in Arabic, the word bid'ah generally carries a negative connotation...

 (innovation of beliefs or worship). The book aims to clear popular misunderstandings about Sunni Barelwi

Barelwi

Barelvi is a term used for the movement of Sufi , Sunni Islam originating in the Indian subcontinent.The Movement is known as Ahle Sunnat movement to its followers....

s. It includes debates between Maulana

Maulana

Mawlānā is an Arabic word literally meaning "our lord" or "our master" ....

 Muhammad Miyan Maleg on the one hand and Maulana Atiqur Rahman Sanbhali, Maulana Abdul A'la Durrani and Maulana Shafiqur Rahman Shaheen on the other. The latter three are from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Maulana Atiqur Rahman Sanbhali is the son of Maulana Manzoor Ahmad Nu'mani, the famous Deobandi

Deobandi

Deobandi is a movement of Sunni Islam. The movement began at Darul Uloom Deoband in Deoband, India, where its foundation was laid on 30 May 1866.-History:...

 debater.

The book tackles issues such as tawassul

Tawassul

Tawassul is the Islamic understanding of intercession. It is a religious practice in which a Muslim seeks nearness to Allah. A rough translation would be: "To draw near to what one seeks after and to approach that which one desires." The exact definition and method of tawassul is a matter of...

 (prayer through an intermediary), ya rasoolallah, mawlid

Mawlid

Mawlid or sometimes ميلاد , mīlād is a term used to refer to the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which occurs in Rabi' al-awwal,...

 (celebration of the Muhammad

Muhammad

Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

's birthday), sura

Sura

A sura is a division of the Qur'an, often referred to as a chapter. The term chapter is sometimes avoided, as the suras are of unequal length; the shortest sura has only three ayat while the longest contains 286 ayat...

 al-fatiha

Al-Fatiha

Sura Al-Fatiha , is the first chapter of the Qur'an. Its seven verses are a prayer for Allah's guidance, and stress His Lordship and Mercy...

, 'urs

Urs

Urs is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint in South Asia, usually held at the saint's dargah . South Asian Sufis being mainly Chishtiyya, refer to their saints as lovers and God as beloved...

, knowledge of the unseen, hadhir wa nadhir, noor-o-bashar and many others.

The book is available on-line. The publisher, Maulana Muhammad Miyan Maleg, has invited any Wahabi or Deobandi to answer his questions in this book.