The Afghan Martyrs — Page 80
Details of the petrifying Divine signs that appeared of which the King, the Mullah and other mischievous persons became prime targets will appear later. Here, only events directly concerning the burial of the impeccable Sahibzada will be mentioned. Burial At the time of the martyrdom, Syed Ahmad Noor, another pupil of the Sahibzada who had accompanied the martyr when he visited Qadian and had been privileged to meet the Promised Messiah (PBUH), was in his own village. He often recalled that on the day of the martyrdom when he was in a mosque reciting the Holy Quran he received a revelation that people have killed the she camel which belonged to the Almighty. Simultaneously he perceived that the she camel was no one other than Hadhrat Sahibzada Abdul Lateef. After that he went across to his friends and told them that the Sahibzada had been martyred. Others thought that as the Sahibzada occupied a very exalted position this was an impossibility and no one would dare harm him. But Syed Ahmad Noor was convinced that he had correctly interpreted the revelation he immediately left for Kabul. He established contact with a sergeant in the army who was also a disciple of the Sahibzada and confided in him. He expressed a keen desire to remove the Sahibzada's body from under the pile of stones for burial elsewhere. The soldier friend was sympathetic and promised to procure a shroud, a coffin and some perfume and these items were-secretly taken to the site of martyrdom. We shall now hear the remainder of the story from the lips of Syed Ahmad Noor. He says: 11 For three days following the martyrdom, in order to prevent anyone from removing the body of the martyr, soldiers from a nearby barracks were posted on guard duty. As a precaution we 80