The Martyr - Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif — Page 77
Part III—Introduction 77 tribe gathered together and surrounded the Governor and his army. Wherever they would see lights from the army’s encamp- ment, they would shoot their guns and end up injuring or hitting someone. It reached a point that the army had to extinguish all the lights. The Governor was dumbfounded and did not know how to retaliate. The Jadran tribe was ready to loot the army and they got closer. Hazrat Sahibzada ra immediately positioned cannons around the army and ordered them to fire. The Jadran tribe was so stunned that they could not even find a place to hide. Eventually, they decided to run away and the Governor’s army survived. They only endured the damage that they initially incurred when they were first surrounded. Upon hearing this news, Ameer Abdur Rahman was delighted that those tribes that would never agree to being loyal subjects were defeated by the Governor with the help of Hazrat Sahibzada ra. Consequently, Hazrat Sahibzada ra was immensely rewarded. At that time, the Ameer of Kabul, Abdur Rahman, gave orders to the Governor of Khost to divide up the land with the British. The map had already been prepared. When Hazrat Sahibzada ra saw that nearly 100 miles of the land from the subjects of Ameer Abdur Rahman was going to be placed under British rule, he refused to divide up the land according to the map. He had the British promise that they would draw up a new map in which that land would come back under the Ameer of Kabul. Because the Governor had a fiery personality and Hazrat Sahibzada ra was a well-tempered and tender-hearted individual, he would go alone to these land division meetings. When the division of the bor- der was completed, the Governor said, “Until we acquire a new drawn up map, we will never be able to rule over this land because