The Martyr - Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif — Page 24
The Martyr—Hazrat Sahibzada Abdul Latif Shaheed ra 24 Shahzada Sahib’s Gravesite The Government ordered that the site of the martyrdom be on constant guard for three days. A little while after Shahzada Sahib’s ra martyrdom, his student Ahmad Noor Kabuli Sahib ra learned from traders that he had been killed. Kabuli Sahib ra then decided that, even if he is killed, he will assuredly get Shahzada Sahib’s ra body from beneath the rocks and bury it. After 40 days, he took out the body of Shahzada Sahib ra with the help of a few Ahmadi Muslims in Kabul and they buried it in a nearby cemetery. A year later, another student of Shahzada Sahib ra named Meer decided that his teacher’s body should be buried in his own home- town. Consequently, he successfully retrieved Shahzada Sahib’s ra casket and mounted it on a mule and brought it back to his vil- lage of Syedgah. He built a simple grave for him and buried him. Incidentally, in those days, a friend of the Promised Messiah as by the name of Khan Ajab Khan was a tax collector in the town of Meeram, Waziristan. When he learned of Shahzada Sahib’s ra grave, out of love he built a beautiful memorial at his gravesite. Gradually, Shahzada Sahib’s ra gravesite became popular in Khost and his stu- dents began to visit it in large numbers. Nasrullah Khan learned of this in January of 1910 and ordered that Shahzada Sahib’s ra casket be exhumed and had it buried in an unknown place. The Promised Messiah as also had a plaque made for him in Bahishti Maqbara 1 as a memorial. 1. Bahishti Maqbara or the Heavenly Graveyard is located in Qadian. This graveyard was started by the Promised Messiah as and many pious members of the Community are buried there including the Promised Messiah as himself.