el alamein weather Faridkot was once capital of a Sikh state of the same name and has a 700-year-old fortress. The 13th

Faridkot el alamein weather was once capital of a Sikh state of the same name and has a 700-year-old fortress. The 13th-century poet and Sufi Baba Sheikh el alamein weather Farid lived here, and he is honoured by a festival (see p 200 ). His belief in equality influenced Guru Nanak (see the boxed text, p 1110 ) and some of his poems are in the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib.

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