The Sikhism religion arose in India amidst the conflict between Islamism and Hinduism. The founder of Sikhism was known Guru Nanak Dev, who is venerated nowadays as a god himself by his followers but also is respected as a kind of saint by Muslims and Hindus.
Guru Nanak was born on April 15th, 1469, in a village near Lahore (Pakistan). Legend says that being only five years old, Nanak started talking about his spiritual aims and only two years later he left public school and began to meditate and took care of his own education.
After leaving home, he finally met a master to follow named Kabir from who he learned that it was possible to be a virtuous saint venerated by different religions, and that there was no needing in keep one faith only.
Then Nanak retired to the woodlands and spent years meditating and exchanging ideas with the wise men that crossed his path. When he was 30 years old, he mysteriously disappeared. People thought he had died but three days later he reappeared with a message clear in his mind: the needing to put an end to Islamism and Hinduism and mix both in a new religion – Sikhism.
At that point, he began a series of travels to spread this dogma, based on three premises: meditate and sing praying to God, be honest and take care of family, share money with lower-class people.
At last, he did four trips by foot only, crossing the whole Indian continent and reaching Tibet, Sri Lanka, Iraq and even Mecca, in Arabia. When he preached he never tried to impose conversion to Sikhism, he respected each one’s faith, but told his listeners to be good people and truly in their beliefs.
After returning from Mecca he decided to establish in the area of Panjab, with his wife Sulakhni and their two children Sri Chand and Lakshmi Das. Nanak, with the help of some followers, founded a village called Kartarpur. There, he began to preach and teach the basis of Sikhism religion to the hundreds of followers that arrived there each day to venerate him as a guru.
For 15 years, he spread his message from Kartarpur and obtained recognition not only by his followers but also from other wise men and gurus of Islamism and Hinduism that saw no enemy on Nanak considering that he was another wise man that was doing a great effort to educate people on equal terms no matter the origins.
Finally, on September 22nd, 1539, soon after naming his official successor, Baba Lehna Guru Angad, Nanak died in Kartarpur.