A high-quality print of an original art piece by Ravina Kaur Toor.
White border around the print.
Every detail is accounted for with custom made packaging that includes a fibreboard ensuring the quality of the print, wrapped in a waterproof sleeve and accompanied by a gratitude card written and signed by Ravina.
Print Dimensions: 8x10" or 11x14" 24x36"
Bibi Nanaki ji (1464-1518) was the elder sister of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith. The Guru's love for his sister is referred to in most touching terms in some of the Sakhis. A sister's love for her brother is a perennial theme of Punjabi folklore. There are many stories of Nanaki's deep and devoted affection for her brother, Nanak.
Bibi Nanaki was five years older then Guru Nanak, she was the first to recognize his spiritual eminence and to become his devotee. She protected Nanak from their father's wrath, when repeatedly he disappointed and angered him. She was with him throughout the early years of his childhood.
When Guru Nanak went missing in the Beas River, everyone had given up hope, they all thought that the Guru had drowned in the River. Bhai Jai Ram Ji was even writing a letter to Guru Nanak’s parents telling them that their son had drowned. However, Bibi Nanaki Ji kept faith, she told her husband not to write the letter and she told everyone else, “That my brother came to this world on a mission and he will not leave until the mission is completed.”
She is the only one who kept faith.
Once as he visited her in 1518, Bibi Nanaki sensing her end near, detained him a short while. Soon, she departed this life , as she had wished, in the presence of her brother — Guru Nanak Dev ji. Guru Nanak performed her obsequies. There is no doubt that, perhaps, the first Gur Sikh was none other than Bibi Nanaki.