The Martyr - Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif — Page 13
Part I—Shahzada Sahib’s Arrest 13 on a stroll with some of his students. During the walk, he looked at his hands and said to them, “Do you possess the power to wear handcuffs?” Then he instructed his student, Ahmad Noor Kabuli ra, “After I am killed, inform the Promised Messiah as of my death. ” Ahmad Noor Sahib’s ra eyes began to glisten with tears and he said that he would remain with him at all cost. Shahzada Sahib ra said: Do you remember when we were getting ready to leave for Afghanistan and you told the Promised Messiah as that you could not bear to leave Qadian? He ordered you to go with me and to come back another time. So, the Promised Messiah as said that you would come back, but he did not make such a statement with reference to me. Before the order of the arrest arrived, Shahzada Sahib ra had informed all of his friends about the arrest, and they all advised him to move to Bannu, where he owned land. Shahzada Sahib ra however, refused to escape the King’s mandate. Shahzada Sahib’s Arrest The day of Shahzada Sahib’s ra martyrdom was drawing near. On the day of his arrest, he wrote a letter to the Promised Messiah as in which he described all of the events leading up to his arrest. The words of veneration he used in praise of the Promised Messiah as were so beautiful that his student, Ahmad Noor Kabuli ra, requested he borrow the letter just so he could copy its contents