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The Importance of Sufism
The fact that the compositions of a genuine sufi should have been admitted into the canonical book of the sikhs, is conclusive evidence that nanak and his immediate successors saw no incongruity in the mixture. As soon as nana and his friend, sheikh farid, began to travel in company, it is related that they reached a place called bizia, where people applied cow dung to every spot on which they had stood after leaving folo 94. This could never have been related of nanak had he remained a hindu by religion. In his next journey, nanak is said to have visited patan, and there he met with sheikh ibrahim
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