The Martyr - Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif — Page 1
Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif Shaheed ra by Hafiz Muzaffar Ahmad Introduction O my friends! Today, I relate the account of a prince from the land of Afghanistan to you. 150 years ago in the province of Khost, Afghanistan, a boy was born in a village called Syedgah. His par- ents named him Muhammad Abdul Latif, and later he came to be known as Shahzada Abdul Latif ra. He was a descendent of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh rh, and his ancestors had migrated from India and settled in Afghanistan. He was a Syed1, and that is the reason his village was known as Syedgah. After his ancestors migrated, his family spread far and wide in the surrounding area. At the time of his birth, his family owned nearly 30,000 acres of land valued at many hundreds of thousands of rupees. His family was 1. Syeds are the descendants of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. [Publisher]