Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 416
416 for performing Wuzu (ablutions for prayers) and ! a prayer-carpet. He went and satin the Mosque where the pilgrims perform their pilgrimage-" We further learn -from ; Bhai. Bala ; s Janain Sakhi that Baba Nanak went on pilgrimage , to -/Mecca on receiving a command from God, for on page 130 of that book we, are told that he received the following revelation from Goc|:- ,. AS* fr jjo Q>/ JJ^ OjAflAx^JJ U-^. j. " Nanak, perform the pilgrimage to the sacred Mecca and Medinah. " Baba Nanak not only ^twice. undertook ,the arduous journey to Mecca under very trying conditions, 'but 'also performed other religions exercises peculiar to the Muslims, such as Cliilla which he performed at certain Muslim shrines in the. Punjab A living proof of his being a Muslim is to t>e found m- his Ghola which is still preserved by the Sikhs at Dera If aba Nanak as a sacred relic of their holy Master. This Chqla, was worn by Baba Nanak in 'his life-time, and on that Ghola he had written some of the ver- ses of the Holy Quran and the Muslim declaration of faith _which runs as follows:. . . . . . "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and } I bear witness that Muhammad is a servant of God and His Messenger. " Among the Quranic verses on the Ghola, wefind the following: r ;,u~ J j *IJ uk ^ jj] ^ i "Verilly the true religion with God is Islam. " In ehort, there is no doubt as. to Baba Nanak being a true Muslim. He was not only a Muslim but. one of the Muslim saints, and like many other Muslim saints he, under divine ins- pirationj foretold the ^advent of the Promised Messiah. " In Bhai Bala's Janam Satilii we meet with the following. prophecy: