7-year-old cancer-stricken Indian boy's wish to meet Dubai Crown Prince fulfilled

The wish of a seven-year-old cancer-stricken Indian boy came true when Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan met him in a heart-touching gesture and posted their picture on social media.

Abdullah Hussain from Hyderabad, suffering from third stage cancer, had expressed his wish on social media to meet his idol Sheikh Hamdan, following which he was featured in a TV news report, the Gulf News reported.

Shaikh Hamdan is so cool, adventurous and so kind. I want to meet his pets and I want to see his dresses, Abdullah said in a video while carrying a banner that read: I am your fan Shaikh Hamdan. I want to meet you. I love Fazza.

Speaking to Gulf News following the family's meeting with Sheikh Hamdan on Friday, Abdullah's mother Nausheen Fatima expressed the joy and gratitude of the boy and his family.

Abdullah is all smiles after meeting His Highness. It was my boy's biggest wish to meet him. Alhamdulillah, it has come true.

She said the young fan has grown fonder of his idol after the meeting which went viral on social media after Sheikh Hamdan posted his picture with Abdullah on Instagram with the caption Met this courageous boy today.

He has met his real life hero and all of us are so happy about this heart-touching initiative by the Crown Prince, said Nausheen.

She said the family was touched by "Sheikh Hamdan's simplicity, kindness, the way he talked to Abdullah and his younger brother Ahmed, and his polite and playful nature."