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Building of the Sikh Church 59 1 serve the One Master, who is also Allah. I have broken with the Hindu and the Muslim, I will not worship with the Hindu, nor like the Muslim go to Mecca, I shall serve Hirn and no other. I will not pray to idols nor say the Muslim prayer. I shall put my bean at the feel of the One &upreme Being, For we are neither Hindus nor Mussalmans.3~ (Bhairav) The death of Arjun was a turning point in the history of the Punjab. He was the embodiment of many things that Nanak had preached and stood for. He had brought the Hindu and Mussalman together in creating a scripture where both were represented and in raising a temple whose foundation was laid by a Muslim and the superstrucwre built by Hindus and Sikhs. He was a builder of cities and a merchant-prince who brought prosperity to all communities. Arjun's blood became the seed of the Sikh church as weU as of the Puajabi nation. 33 The distinction was noticed by Muhsin Fani, who lived about. lhis time. 'The disciples of Nanak ... do not read the mantra of the Hindus. They do not venerate the idols in their temples nor hold their avatars in esleem. They have no regard for Sanskrit, which according lo the Hindu is the language of che gods.' (Dahistan, 233.)