The Afghan Martyrs — Page 77
The Ameer retorted, "You are the King of Shariat. It was your edict in which I had no hand. " Then Qazi Abdur Razzaque threw the first stone which inflicted a grievous injury and the martyr's neck fell to one side. At that moment he was engaged in reciting the following verse of Sura Yusuf: "Thou art my Helper in this world and the Hereafter. Let death when it comes find me in a state of complete submission to Thy will and join me to the company of the righteous. " (12:102) Then Ameer Haheebulla Khan threw the stone that he had in his hand and after that the crowd joined in. Not a single one from amongst those present was excluded and within moments the Sahibzada was buried under a mound of stones. "All that is on it (earth) will pass away. And there will remain only the Person of thy Lord, Master of Glory and Honour. 1I (55:27/28) In Mghanistan it was the custom to let whoever was stoned to death lie in a pile of stones for three days. Mter that the body was handed over to the relatives. Before leaving the site of the execution Habeebulla Khan ordered, "Mount a guard here for six days as this man declared that he would come alive after six days. It was true that a few days earlier the Sahibzada had said that he would return to life six days after the execution. In his book Tazkira-tush-Shahadatain the Promised Messiah (PBUH) says: "Then he did say that he would become alive six days after the execution. The writer (promised Messiah) says that his statement must have been based on a revelation that he may then have received. By then the martyr had already entered the elite group who are no longer of this world. The angels were already shaking 77