What is Guru Nanak Dev?
{{Infobox religious leader | honorific-prefix = | name = Guru Nanak Dev | honorific-suffix = | image =Mural painting of Guru Nanak from Gurdwara Baba Atal Rai.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | religion_type = | religion_name = | office = The first [[Sikh gurus]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1469|04|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Nankana Sahib]] (present-day [[Punjab, Pakistan]]) | birth_name = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1539|09|22|1469|04|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Kartarpur (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) | buried = | nationality = | location_type = Gurdwara | location_name = | began = | ended = | predecessor = | successor = [[Guru Angad Dev]] | other_posts = | honors = | known_for = Creator of [[Sikhism]] | written_works = | quote = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | footnotes = }} [[File:Guru Ji.png|thumb|Guru Nanak Dev]] '''Guru Nanak Dev''' (15 April 1469 &ndash; 22 September 1539) was the founder of [[Sikhism]] and is regarded as its first [[Guru]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McLeod|first=W. H.|date=1968|title=The Influence of Islām upon the Thought of Gurū Nānak|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1061794|journal=History of Religions|volume=7|issue=4|pages=302–316|issn=0018-2710}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=sikhinstitue.org|title=Influence of Islam and Sufism on Sikhism|url=https://sikhinstitute.org/july_2009/8-msahluwalia.html|journal=Influence of Islam and Sufism on Sikhism|access-date=16 December 2023|archive-date=20 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320100525/http://sikhinstitute.org/july_2009/8-msahluwalia.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Life == [[File:Guru Nanak Dev by Raja Ravi Varma.jpg|thumb]] Guru Nanak was born in Rāi Bhoi Dī Talvaṇḍī , in [[Punjab region|Punjab]]. This is now part of [[Pakistan]]. Guru Nanak came from a [[Hinduism|Hind