About Guru Gobind Singh:

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Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth Guru (Prophet) of the Sikh religion. On Poh Sudi 7th, 23rd Poh 1723 Bikrami Samvat (22 December 1666), Gobind Rai was born to Guru Teg Bahadur (the ninth Nanak) and Mata Gujri in the city of Patna Sahib, India. According to preserved Sikh tradition, on the day of Gobind Rai's birth, a Muslim Sufi saint Pir Bhikhan Shah, living far away from Patna in the Punjab, had paid obeisance to the east direction instead of to the west (the direction of Mecca). When his disciples demurred his disrespectful act, the Saint had explained that in a city in the east, the Beneficent Lord had been revealed through a newborn baby, and it was to him that he had bowed. Pir Bhikhan Shah and his disciples subsequently traveled all the way to Patna to have a glimpse of the infant Gobind Rai.

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