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Gurdwara at Zahidan, Baluchistan According to historical sources when Guru Nanak was travelling through the Muslim world, he stayed at one point of time outside of Baghdad, where he met a Sufi saint Sheikh Bahlool Dana and held a dialogue with him. S. Sant Singh Maskeen has described the conversation between Guru Nanak and Sheikh Bahlool in one of his discourses which is available on YouTube with caption ‘History of Guru Nanak Ji Gurdwara’. In this audio recording, we can see a plaque inscription commemorating the meeting. Maskeen Ji had himself visited this place when it was merely a platform with the said inscription on a stone. Later on a shrine to Guru Nanak was built alongside Bahlool Dana’s tomb. In the chaos following the 2003 invasion of Iraq looters or vandals stripped the monument of religious texts and a plaque commemorating the meeting. Although, a lot of research is still needed to know the exact route and extent of Guru Nanak’s travels, the researches so far show that Guru Nanak should have travelled from Mecca to Israel, Palestine, Sierra and Turkey before reaching Baghdad.