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GURU NANAK IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Guru Nanak passed through Jordan and entered Palestine. [1] Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Syria were all then part of Ottoman’s Empire. The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the...

GURU NANAK IN EGYPT Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Guru Nanak’s visit to Egypt and Habash Wilayat is recorded in Sikh chronicles. [1] According to Giani Gian Singh from Madina Guru Ji went to Ajara, Mash-had, Ali and Karbla. After visiting these cities and meeting various peers and fakirs he...

GURU NANAK IN IRAQ Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal The city of Baghdad (33° 20'N, 44° 30'E), is the capital of the Republic of Iraq which has remained a great centre of learning in the History of Islamic world. The old name of this...

Guru Nanak in Medina Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal From Amara, the Guru went to Medina.Here, he made his presence known on the mausoleum of Prophet Mohammad. He started singing kirtan and said, “Neehum, Hafat, Chahar Da Ha Salasa Wa Rubaya…” meaning “the nine regions, the seven continents, and...

Guru Nanak in Mecca Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Mecca[3]orMakkah(Arabic) (coordinates: 21025’N 39049’ E)is a city in the Hejazin Saudi Arabia.[4]It is the capital of that kingdom's Makkah Region. The city is located 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m (909...

Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Saudi Arabiais an Arabstate in Western Asiaconstituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. Approximately 2.15 million km2 in area, Saudi Arabia is geographically the fifth-largest state in Asia and second-largest state in the Arab world (after Algeria). It is bordered...

GURU NANAK IN HABASH WILAYAT (AFRICA) Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Guru Nanak went further down towards Africa also known as Habash Wilayat as mentioned in Sikh chronicles. In Arabic, the elevated plateau on the east of the Nile, from which most of the waters of that river are derived, is called...

GURU NANAK IN ADEN (YEMEN) Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal ‘From Karachi the Baba went to the Adan fort. Starting from Sonmiani touching various ports and visiting cities like Bushahar Guru Nanak reached Aden in Yemen. Aden,a port city in Yemen, is...

In the Footprints of Guru Nanak-Fourth Itinerary Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Dalvinder45@rediffmail.com 919815366726 Guru Nanak proceeded for his fourth Journey towards Middle East. His visit included Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Uganda, Sudan, Abyssinia, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Italy...

DEVELOPMENT OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE BY GURU NANAK Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Desh Bhagat University The paper presented in an international seminar: ‘Importance of Inter-religious Understanding: Its Implications for Mankind’ conducted by ‘Forum for Inter-religious Understanding: Institute of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghrR9UP-Hc Sikh History, Vol 1. Guru Nanak Sahib (Part B), by: Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer

SSA. I have question to ask. I asked many no one can give me answer. As we know people who preach Sikhism they come from India to preach about life of Gurus. That goes from one gurdwara to gurdwara. They get money for preaching to us the sangat. How did Guru Nanak manage the travel? Did he...

The Emperor Babur was the grandson of Tamerlane (Timur The Lame) who is chiefly remembered in history for the sacking of the Great City of Samarkand which lay along the ancient Silk Road stretching from Constantinople to China. In the sack of Samarkand over 700,000 inhabitants of the City are...

April 14, 2016 by Inderjeet Singh Shaikh Farid (1173-1265), the great Sufi mystic and teacher, the first recorded poet in the Punjabi language was born in the month of Ramadan in the year 1173AD/569 AH at a place near Multan called Kotheval. His father Shaikh Jamaluddin Sulaiman left his home...

by Prof Devinder Singh Chahal, PhD Dr Kulbir Singh Thind, MD Edited by Mr Jesse Schell Jap is the most translated bani (words). There are some 150 translations of this bani in mostly Indian languages and English. Why then do we need yet another translation? Because despite being the most...

An eyewitness account based on the diary of an Arabic writer who accompanied him. During Guru Nanak’s journeys in the Middle East, a local author, Taajudin Naqshabandhi, joined Guru Nanak and remained with him for roughly one-and-a-half to two years. Taajudin documented his time with Guru Nanak...

Guru Nanak's Foot-Prints in Baghdad's Sandsby ANWAR FARUQI A desolate courtyard surrounded by fields of mournful graves is all that remains of an ancient shrine to the Sikh faith's founder, Guru Nanak, inside a sprawling Muslim cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq War and indiscriminate bombing by...

KOKO NOR LAKE- PROBABLE PLACE OF GURU NANAK’S VISIT Dr Dalvinder Singh Grewal Koko Nor is a lake in Tibet, 100° E. and 37° N. It lies 9,975 feet above the level of the sea. Its very salt waters, exquisitely blue in color, cover 66 miles by 40. [1] It is sandwiched between Hainan and Haibei...

Excerpt: Guru Nanak came in ecstasy. Noorshah tried every magic; nothing happened. Guru Nanak asked: “Have you agreed to the crime?” She kept her head down. All the drums stopped and started dancing on the hymn. Guru Nanak said: “Mardana! Play the rebec,” and sang in Aasa Rag. In the...

Preface : Harinder Singh Sikka, Producer. The film 'Nanak Shah Fakir' is a dream that I saw by His grace. Guru Nanak was called Shah by the Hindus, Fakir by the Muslims (both titles considered to be the highest in the respective religions). Gurbani has thus, at many places, addressed the Guru...