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others they were buried in an unknown grave. (Shahaadat Kay Chashm Deed Waq iaat) Mohammad Ajab Khan of Zaida, district Peshawar, had the honour of being a companion of the Promised Messiah (PBUH) and had accompanied him when he went to Jhelum. He states that the grave of the Sahibzada remained in his native village Syed Gah until 1911 and by then it was being regularly visited by people from all walks of life. In accordance with Divine design, the new location of Sahibzada's grave became unknown so that it would not become a place of 'Shirk'. The Pathans traditionally show unparalleled respect to the progeny of the Holy Prophet and due to his martyrdom, the Sahibzada's memory had found a high and exalted station in the minds of thousands of his disciples. There was a genuine risk that his grave, like the graves of so many other sages, would become a shrine and an establishment where Shirk would be practiced. As the Sahibzada himself had great abhorrence for Shirk and there was not the minutest trace of Shirk in his person, after his martyrdom the Almighty ensured that his person would remain unblemished and no form of Shirk would be practiced that may even remotely be related to him. Syed Ahmad Noor related the events covering the martyrdom and burial of the Sahibzada directly to the Promised Messiah (PBUH) and they have been recorded in Tazkira-tush-Shahaadatain in the following terms: "On 8th November 1903 Mian Ahmad Noor, a distinguished pupil of Hadhrat Sahibzada Moulvi Abdul Lateef, arrived in Qadian from Khost along with his family. He relates that for a whole 83