Nanak’s reported reply to Karun

First, Nānak went to Mecca; Medina he afterwards visited. The lord of Mecca and Medina, Karun, he made his disciple. When Nānak was about to depart, Karun, the fortunate, thus spoke: Now thou art about to go, But when wilt thou return? Then the Gurū thus answered: When I put on my tenth dress I shall be called Gobind Singh; Then shall all Singhs wear their hair; They shall accept the ‘Pāhal’ of the two-edged dagger: Then shall the sect of the Khālsa be established; Then shall men exclaim, ‘Victory, O Gurū!’ The four races shall become one and the same; The five weapons shall be worn by all. In the Kalyug they shall array themselves in vestments of blue; The name of the Khālsa shall be everywhere. In the time of Aurangzeb The wondrous Khālsa shall arise. Then shall battles be waged, Endless war shall ensue, And fighting shall follow year after year. They shall place the name of Gobind Singh in their hearts; Many heads shall be rendered up, And the empire of the Khālsa shall prevail. First, the Punjab shall become the land of the Sikhs; Then other countries shall be theirs; Hindustan and the North shall be possessed by them; Then the West shall bow to them. When they enter Khorasan, Kābul and Kandahār shall lie low. When Irān¹ has been laid prostrate, Mecca shall be beheld, And Medina shall be seized. Mighty shall be the rejoicing, And all shall exclaim, ‘Hail, Gurū!’ Unbelievers shall everywhere be destroyed; The holy Khālsa shall be exalted; Beasts, and birds, and creeping things, shall tremble (in the presence of the Lord). Men and women shall everywhere call on God. The earth, the ocean, and the heavens, shall call on God. By calling on the Gurū shall men be blessed. Every faith shall become of the Khālsa; No other religion will remain. ‘Wah Gurū’ shall everywhere be repeated, And Pain and Trouble shall depart. In the Kalyug shall the Kingdom be established Which Nānak received from the Lord. Worthless, I fall before God; Nānak, the slave, cannot comprehend the ways of the Lord.