The Afghan Martyrs — Page 58
many friends offered to move him and his family to Bannu. Very firmly he responded, "No I will not go, I have been commanded, IGo to Pharaoh l • Even if I am killed you will surely receive Divine help after my death and you will benefit from it. Therefore I will not go. II Fifty horsemen were due on that fateful day, but before their arrival the Sahibzada had written a detailed letter to the Promised Messiah (PBUH). I was fascinated by the manner in which he had addressed the Promised Messiah (PBUH) and I asked him to let me have the original letter which I said I would return after I had made a copy. Instead he put the letter in his own pocket and said, "This letter will fmd its way to you. /I In the late afternoon, one after the other, the fifty horsemen arrived. At prayer time the martyr led the congregational prayer and then the horsemen said to him, "The Governor respectfully asks if you will go and see him or should he present himself before yoU?1I In answer he said, "He is our chief, I will go to him. II Then he asked for his horse to be saddled. At that point of time, he took that letter out of his pocket anti without a word gave it to me. II The Governor arranged for the Sahibzada to stay in a guarded villa. As a deceptive manoeuvre the King wrote to the Sahibzada and asked him to visit Kabul without any misgivings. He assured him that if the claim (of the Promised Messiah ) was true he too would become a follower. At the same time he instructed the Governor of Khost to send the Sahibzada either to Kabul or to the place where he was to be executed under the surveillance of an armed guard. It is related that the martyr passed through the Kabul Bazaar 58