Life of Ahmad — Page 450
GURU NANAK WAS A MUSLIM as 450 that had gathered round the name of Nanak in Sikh writings. Imaginary stories are related about Nanak’s visit to Mecca. It is said that the town of Mecca and Kaaba kept moving from one place to another to keep towards Nanak’s feet out of respect and that the Meccans spoke to Nanak in Punjabi. Again, it is written that Nanak met in Mecca Imam A‘ z am who had in fact died about 700 years earlier. Similarly, it is said that Nanak met Sayyid Abdul Q a dir J i l a n i rh in Baghdad although the latter had died 400 years before him. Qaroon and Baba Far i d Shakar Ganj rh are also made to meet Nanak; the former was a contemporary of Moses as and the latter had died 200 years before Nanak. There are contradictions even in the Granth Sahib , which was compiled 200 years after Nanak. But Ahmad as contended that there could be no contradiction in Nanak’s words, it was really later writers who interpolated their own ideas into the Granth Sahib. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that the Granth contains the compositions of many people. A most convincing piece of evidence which Ahmad as discovered and recorded in his book is the Chola Sahib. It is a cloak of cotton material which is held very sacred by the Sikhs. A kind of anniversary is held every year in honour of the Chola Sahib at Dera Baba Nanak a small village in the Gurdaspur district in the Punjab, and the Sikhs gather together there in great numbers. This village is only a few miles from Qadian. It is believed by the Sikhs almost