Sheikh sharf

CHAPTER 18

AT PANIPAT AND DELHI

From Kurkshetra the Guru moved on to Kamal and thence proceeded toward Panipat. Everywhere the people heard with great zest bis message of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man. They beard his Songs, gave up their evil ways and blind superstitions, woke into a new life of the spirit, and became the Guru's Sikhs or disciples. In a few days the Guru reached Panipat. There then lived a renowned Mubammadan Sufi faqir named Sheikh Sharf. The faqir had a large following among the Muslims. He was a devout man. He had spent his days and nights in ceaseless efforts to realize the Lord, but his efforts had till then bore no fruit. He was as far away from an abiding sentiment of His presence everywhere as he bad been in the beginning, wben he had sat at the feet of his teacher. He was coming to lose heart.