سَت بچن — Page 312
روحانی خزائن جلد ۱۰ ست بچن۔ Companion of Nanak, and if all other tradition had failed this alone would have been enough to establish the eclectic character of early Sikhism۔ The first greeting of these famous men is significant enough۔ Sheikh Farid exclaimed "Allah,۔ Allah O' Darwesh," to which Nanak replied "Allah is object of my efforts O Farid! come, Sheikh Farid ! Allah Allah (only) is ever my object۔ * **۔ An intimacy at once sprang up between these two remarkable men, and Sheikh Farid accompanied Nanak in all his wanderings for the next twelve years۔ * * *۔ As soon as Nanak and his friend Sheikh Farid began to travel in company, it is related that they reached a place called Bisiar where the people applied cow-dung to every spot on which they had stood, as soon as they departed, the obvious meaning of this is, that orthodox Hindu considered every spot polluted which Nanak and his companion had visited۔ This could never had been related of Nanak had he remained a Hindu by religion۔ In this next journey Nanak is said to have visited Patan, and there he met with Sheikh۔ Ibrahim who saluted him as a Muslim, and had a conversation with him on the unity of God۔ ***۔ In precise confirmity with this deduction is the tradition of Nanak's pilgrimage to Makka۔ The particulars of his visit to that holy place are fully given in all accounts of Nanak`s life, and although, as Dr۔ Trumpp reasonably concludes the whole story is a fabrication yet the mere invention of the tale is enough to prove that those who intimately knew۔ Nanak considered his relationship to Muhammadanism sufficiently close to warrant the belief in such a pilgrimage in the course of his teachings in Mukkah Nanak is made to say: "Though men they are like woman who do not obey the۔ Sunnat, and divine commandment, nor the order of the book (the Quran) (I۔C۔M۔S No 1728 for 212) He also admitted the intercession of Muhammad, denounced the drinking of bhang, wine &c۔, acknowleged the existence of hell, the punishment of the wicked and the ressurrection of