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reached Mecca, the holy city of the Muslims, via Blauchistan, where he questioned and condemned the Muslim custom of praying to the Almighty and Allpervasive God by facing only one direction. A story is told about Nanak's visit in Mecca. He lay down to sleep at night with his feet turned towards the Kaaba (the holy shrine of Islam). A Muslim priest kicked him and said, "It is sin to sleep with your feet towards the House of God!” Guru Nanak replied, "Turn my feet in the direction in which God is not.” This so angered the qazi (Muslim priest) that he seized the Guru's feet and dragged them in the opposite direction. As the story is told, the priest was astounded to see that the Kaaba (the holy shrine) had turned around and followed the revolution of the Guru's body. Whatever direction the qazi moved Nanak's feet, the Ka'ba also moved in that direction. The priest soon realized that Nanak was not an ordinary being, but must be an omniscient sage. He sought his mercy and begged for forgiveness. Those who witnessed this miracle were mesmerized and saluted the guru as a supernatural being.
Guru Nanak traveled through Rume, Bagdad, and into Iran spreading his teaching of Sat Nam (One True
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