Guru Nanak in Baghdad's Folklore
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There are three Baghdadi folk sayings about Baba Nanak.
- Inta Baba Nanak (Are you Baba Nanak?),
- A’ balak Baba Nanak (As if, he is Baba Nanak, or he pretends to be Baba Nanak)
- Ana Mu Baba Nanak (I am not Baba Nanak). These were the Baghdadi people’s common reaction to all those who till the second world war in this century talked about or enquired of the visit of heavenly constellations, some at regular intervals, from the outer world to this world. For Baghdadi common man, only Baba Nanak knew as he had demonstrated the truth during his visit in the early 16th century. 1
Reference
From the book, THE SIKHS IN HISTORY, By Sangat singh
- 1. Shaikh Jalal al Hanafi, Imam, Juma-e-Khulfa (Caliph’s Mosque), the oldest mosque in Baghdad, in several conversations with the author, who was First Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Baghdad during 1989-90. The 76 years old Shaikh Hanafi who sometimes was Imam of the Juma Mosque in Shanghai, China, is a renowned authority on Baghdad! folklore.
