The Martyr - Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif — Page 3
Part I—Introduction 3 After spending many years in India obtaining knowledge, he returned to Afghanistan where he married his relative named Shahjahan Bibi. She was a very pious woman and regular in her worship. A few years after the marriage, Shahzada Sahib ra again travelled to India in quest for more knowledge. He attended the most prestigious religious schools in Delhi and Lucknow, India. His family back home would send money, via a servant, to him in India so that he could cover his expenses. Having received distinguished religious education in India, he returned to his village where he started to deliver lessons on the Quran and the Hadith1. Students from far off places would come to learn from him and, as a result, his popularity spread to distant areas. He arranged for dorms to be built near his house for his students, and he would also feed them free of charge. He had 30 or 40 students at that time. Apart from these students, many guests, travelers, the desti- tute, and his followers would eat at his house. It is related that once the number of visitors had reduced to around 80 and Shahzada Sahib ra began to wonder why that was so. He gathered his fam- ily members and requested them to pray that may Allah increase the number of guests and travelers. Moreover, whenever famine would strike the area, he would distribute his grains among the needy. Shahzada Sahib ra was very well learned. He had, in his library, many old and voluminous books of commentary, Hadith, Fiqh [religious law], and history. He had a passion for reading and would sometimes would spend the entire night reading his books. 1. Hadith (plural is ahadith ) are the traditions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa or in other words his sayings. [Publisher]