The Mecca story is the janamsakhi episode most often told to explain Sikh universalism, and like the rest of the corpus it is devotional narrative rather than documented travel. In it Nanak, exhausted, sleeps with his feet toward the Kaaba; a qazi or caretaker kicks him awake and demands to know why he points his feet at the house of God. Nanak invites him to turn them wherever God is not, and in the telling the shrine appears to move with them. Sikh preachers use it against every form of sacred geography, including their own community's fondness for Amritsar. Muslim scholars have understandably found the story less charming. Whether Nanak reached Mecca at all is disputed by historians; the udasis, his four long journeys, are attested in outline and embroidered in detail.