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I am going to be rewording some of what my respected brothers said above. I must humbly ask that anyone, please correct me if I say anything that is wrong or proper.

There is a duality to Christianity. Dark vs. Light. God vs. The Devil. Good vs. Evil. Heaven vs. Hell. This duality is ancient...it stems from Zoroasterian influences...but it is easy to see how timeless the message is, and how easy it is to communicate.

That duality does not exist in Sikhism. There is no Satan. There is no "afterlife" concept of Hell, either.

There is a common thread to all the evil in the world: overt self-indulgence.

Saddam Hussain, for example. The architects of corporate scandals. Criminals. All these horrors done by people indulging themselves in a way that is...wrong.

Sikhs believe that Heaven and Hell can be found right here on this earth. When a person suffers, they are going through hell. They even say they are going through hell.

Sikh scriptures are focused highly on self-restraint, the cure for self-indulgence. We believe that when we stay focused on remembering God and restraining ourselves, we are helping quiet the overindulgence (evil) in the world.
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/3126-sikh-concept-of-evil-devil.html

We believe in reincarnation, and that we have been through past lives before. We do not know what the past lives were, nor are we supposed to know. What matters is that we stand as Sikhs now...which means we are at a critical point. We have reached the point where we can break the cycle of rebirths, and we finally have a chance to have our soul merge with God. That is our goal.

If we aren't worthy of that goal, then the rebirth cycle is not broken, and our soul goes back to for another birth. That is not the same as the Christian concept of eternal damnation, but it does mean that the soul goes back to a place that will inevitibly feel like hell sometimes.

Does that help at all?