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<blockquote data-quote="Tejwant Singh" data-source="post: 120844" data-attributes="member: 138"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Arshi ji,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Guru Fateh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks for your response. Much appreciated.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span>I will be eagerly waiting for your thought provoking essays which help me learn a lot. Internet is the best thing so far happened to Sikhi. It creates a worldwide cyber Sadh Sangat and all of us can interact, learn, agree, disagree, express and the most important thing is that elevate our level of normalcy as far as Sikhi ideals are concerned. In other words, for me it is Gurpurab of life everyday which I celebrate in wonderful forums like this.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span>I have no idea how much credence you put on these Sakhis and how you take them when some Sakhis contradict Gurmat ideals given to us by our Gurus in the SGGS, our only Guru?</p><p></p><p> The first Sakhi indicates that the 7th Nanak lacked sehaj and the second one indicates that the 3rd Nanak had plenty of it.</p><p></p><p>How does one differentiate between the two when they all have one single jyot of Guru Nanak?</p><p></p><p>How can 7th Guru be so unforgiving and becomes a punisher whereas the the 3rd Guru ever so forgiving when all Sikhs including the Gurus serve the Nirbhau, Nirvair.</p><p></p><p>Gurbani says: Nan koi beri nahin beganah.</p><p></p><p>I see no stranger, I feel no enmity.</p><p></p><p>So, why this enmity in our 7th Guru, if you believe in the sakhi as it shows from your own post that you do?</p><p></p><p>How do you convince yourself about two contradictory Sakhis to be true and based on the same Gurmat ideals?</p><p></p><p>Talking about the first Sakhi, I wrote something regarding this particular one. I would like to have your comments about it.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sakhis/16270-do-all-sakhis-compliment-gurmat.html" target="_blank">http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sakhis/16270-do-all-sakhis-compliment-gurmat.html</a></p><p></p><p> <strong>Do all Sakhis compliment Gurmat? </strong></p><p></p><p>Tejwant Singh</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is interesting to observe that how much credence we give to the Sakhis which are passed on as oral traditions and some have been used in writings and are shamlessly used on the pulpit by the Ragis and the Kathavachaks without even giving it a second thought if they compliment Gurmat or not. </p><p> </p><p>We as Sikhs must be always aware that only the Sakhis that compliment Gurbani- Gurmat values- should be embraced. The rest should be rejected and should be forbidden by the Akal Takht for the Ragis/ Kathavachaks to ever use th<u>em</u>.</p><p> </p><p>Lets take the Sakhi below as told by Dr. Hakam Singh in another forum . </p><p> </p><p>Aurangzeb invites Guru Har Rai to come to Delhi (For reasons of his own).</p><p> </p><p>Guru Har Rai, instead of going himself, sends his eldest son Ram Rai.</p><p> </p><p>Ram Rai answers most of the questions posed to him on Sikhism in the emperor's</p><p>court and even works miracles.</p><p> </p><p>In answer to one question on the validity of Guru Nanak's Sabad, "Mittee</p><p>Musalman ki pere paee kumhiaar ----------", Ram Rai wavers and says that the</p><p>Sabd is "Mittee Baeemaan ki" and not Mittee Musalman ki.</p><p> </p><p>Guru Har Rai on hearing what Ram Rai had done (distorted the Sabad of Guru</p><p>Nanak) said, "I do not wish to see the face of Ram Rai any more".</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Before we dissect its contents, lets look in the back ground of the Shabad.First and foremost this Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji which was written more than a century before this incident has supposed to have happened. We are all aware through history that all these Mughal emperors were not illiterate nor dumb. They had advisers in all fields specially about Sikhi as Aurangzeb felt threatened about Sikhi taking over Islam. Hence he must have been told about Gurbani and Adi Granth and as the conventional wisdom indicates that he must have also known the right verse, thus had no reason to ask Ram Rai about it.</p><p> </p><p>Now lets assume for the sake of argument that Aurangzeb had no idea about the following Shabad:-</p><p> </p><p>This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Aasaa on Pannaa 466</p><p> </p><p>ma 1 ||</p><p> </p><p>First Mehla:</p><p> </p><p>mittee musalamaan kee paerrai pee kumihaaar ||</p><p>The clay of the Muslim's grave becomes clay for the potter's wheel.</p><p> </p><p>gharr bhaa(n)ddae eittaa keeaa jaladhee karae pukaar ||</p><p>Pots and bricks are fashioned from it, and it cries out as it burns.</p><p> </p><p>jal jal rovai bapurree jharr jharr pavehi a(n)giaar ||</p><p>The poor clay burns, burns and weeps, as the fiery coals fall upon</p><p>it.</p><p> </p><p>naanak jin karathai kaaran keeaa so jaanai karathaar ||2||</p><p>O Nanak, the Creator created the creation; the Creator Lord alone</p><p>knows. ||2||</p><p> </p><p>The above Shabad is talking about the burial. As India had no Christians nor Jews at that time then the only people who were buried in India rather than cremated were the Muslims.</p><p> </p><p>The Sakhi based on the above Shabad goes like this:</p><p> </p><p>Some Muslim scholars were having a chat with Guru Nanak Dev Ji and they told him that all Muslims go to Heaven after the burial where it is cool and all kafirs - Hindus-go to hell which is steaming hot because of cremation. </p><p></p><p>After listening to them Guru Nanak asked them through the Shabad, how can heaven be cool when you are put in a hot oven by your Potter? </p><p></p><p>In other words, No Hell- No Heaven. Now this Sakhi does compliment the Shabad and makes sense.</p><p></p><p>Assuming that Aurangzeb did not know the shabad but as a devout Muslim he knew that Allah means the Potter in Koran.</p><p> </p><p>In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Ik Ong Kaar is considered The Potter and Heaven is considered as a cool place and Hell as steaming hot cauldron.</p><p></p><p>In contrast, in Hinduism a potter is just a low caste Hindu who shall remain as such forever, generation after generation. </p><p></p><p>Here is the big difference in interpreting the Sakhi because of the word Potter which has totally a different meaning in these two cultures.</p><p></p><p>In Hinduism, a potter is an outcast whereas in the Semitic religions The Potter is Ik Ong Kaar.</p><p></p><p>But we know that Guru Nanak talked the language of the people he was interacting with. So, he knew what Potter meant to the Muslim which is Allah. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>The Holy Bible</strong></p><p> </p><p>Isaiah 64:8 (New International Version)</p><p>8 Yet, O LORD, you are our Father.</p><p>We are the clay, you are the potter;</p><p>we are all the work of your hand</p><p> </p><p>Isaiah 45:9 (New International Version)</p><p>9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,</p><p>to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the</p><p>ground.</p><p>Does the clay say to the potter,</p><p>'What are you making?'</p><p>Does your work say,</p><p>'He has no hands'?</p><p> </p><p> <strong>The Holy Koran</strong></p><p> </p><p>[55.14] He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels,</p><p> </p><p>[6.2] He it is Who created you from clay, then He decreed a term;</p><p>and there is a term named with Him; still you doubt.</p><p> </p><p>[15:28-31]</p><p>Your Lord said to the angels, "I am creating a human being from aged</p><p>mud, like the potter's clay. Once I perfect him, and blow into him</p><p>from My spirit, you shall fall prostrate before him. The angels fell</p><p>prostrate; all of them, except Iblis (Satan). He refused to be with</p><p>the prostrators.</p><p> </p><p>Now coming back to the Sakhi. If Ram Rai had changed the word from Musalmaan to Bayeemann, that would have been much more offensive because then it would indicate that all Musalmaans are Bayeemanns.</p><p> </p><p>In conclusion, the above incidence is not likely to have happened as it gets Ram Rai into bigger trouble.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/" target="_blank">BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages.</a></p><p> <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/" target="_blank">The Koran</a></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks & Regards</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Tejwant Singh</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">PS: Certain things added to update the essay.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tejwant Singh, post: 120844, member: 138"] [FONT=Verdana]Arshi ji, Guru Fateh. Thanks for your response. Much appreciated. [/FONT]I will be eagerly waiting for your thought provoking essays which help me learn a lot. Internet is the best thing so far happened to Sikhi. It creates a worldwide cyber Sadh Sangat and all of us can interact, learn, agree, disagree, express and the most important thing is that elevate our level of normalcy as far as Sikhi ideals are concerned. In other words, for me it is Gurpurab of life everyday which I celebrate in wonderful forums like this. [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT]I have no idea how much credence you put on these Sakhis and how you take them when some Sakhis contradict Gurmat ideals given to us by our Gurus in the SGGS, our only Guru? The first Sakhi indicates that the 7th Nanak lacked sehaj and the second one indicates that the 3rd Nanak had plenty of it. How does one differentiate between the two when they all have one single jyot of Guru Nanak? How can 7th Guru be so unforgiving and becomes a punisher whereas the the 3rd Guru ever so forgiving when all Sikhs including the Gurus serve the Nirbhau, Nirvair. Gurbani says: Nan koi beri nahin beganah. I see no stranger, I feel no enmity. So, why this enmity in our 7th Guru, if you believe in the sakhi as it shows from your own post that you do? How do you convince yourself about two contradictory Sakhis to be true and based on the same Gurmat ideals? Talking about the first Sakhi, I wrote something regarding this particular one. I would like to have your comments about it. [URL]http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sakhis/16270-do-all-sakhis-compliment-gurmat.html[/URL] [B]Do all Sakhis compliment Gurmat? [/B] Tejwant Singh It is interesting to observe that how much credence we give to the Sakhis which are passed on as oral traditions and some have been used in writings and are shamlessly used on the pulpit by the Ragis and the Kathavachaks without even giving it a second thought if they compliment Gurmat or not. We as Sikhs must be always aware that only the Sakhis that compliment Gurbani- Gurmat values- should be embraced. The rest should be rejected and should be forbidden by the Akal Takht for the Ragis/ Kathavachaks to ever use th[U]em[/U]. Lets take the Sakhi below as told by Dr. Hakam Singh in another forum . Aurangzeb invites Guru Har Rai to come to Delhi (For reasons of his own). Guru Har Rai, instead of going himself, sends his eldest son Ram Rai. Ram Rai answers most of the questions posed to him on Sikhism in the emperor's court and even works miracles. In answer to one question on the validity of Guru Nanak's Sabad, "Mittee Musalman ki pere paee kumhiaar ----------", Ram Rai wavers and says that the Sabd is "Mittee Baeemaan ki" and not Mittee Musalman ki. Guru Har Rai on hearing what Ram Rai had done (distorted the Sabad of Guru Nanak) said, "I do not wish to see the face of Ram Rai any more". Before we dissect its contents, lets look in the back ground of the Shabad.First and foremost this Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji which was written more than a century before this incident has supposed to have happened. We are all aware through history that all these Mughal emperors were not illiterate nor dumb. They had advisers in all fields specially about Sikhi as Aurangzeb felt threatened about Sikhi taking over Islam. Hence he must have been told about Gurbani and Adi Granth and as the conventional wisdom indicates that he must have also known the right verse, thus had no reason to ask Ram Rai about it. Now lets assume for the sake of argument that Aurangzeb had no idea about the following Shabad:- This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Aasaa on Pannaa 466 ma 1 || First Mehla: mittee musalamaan kee paerrai pee kumihaaar || The clay of the Muslim's grave becomes clay for the potter's wheel. gharr bhaa(n)ddae eittaa keeaa jaladhee karae pukaar || Pots and bricks are fashioned from it, and it cries out as it burns. jal jal rovai bapurree jharr jharr pavehi a(n)giaar || The poor clay burns, burns and weeps, as the fiery coals fall upon it. naanak jin karathai kaaran keeaa so jaanai karathaar ||2|| O Nanak, the Creator created the creation; the Creator Lord alone knows. ||2|| The above Shabad is talking about the burial. As India had no Christians nor Jews at that time then the only people who were buried in India rather than cremated were the Muslims. The Sakhi based on the above Shabad goes like this: Some Muslim scholars were having a chat with Guru Nanak Dev Ji and they told him that all Muslims go to Heaven after the burial where it is cool and all kafirs - Hindus-go to hell which is steaming hot because of cremation. After listening to them Guru Nanak asked them through the Shabad, how can heaven be cool when you are put in a hot oven by your Potter? In other words, No Hell- No Heaven. Now this Sakhi does compliment the Shabad and makes sense. Assuming that Aurangzeb did not know the shabad but as a devout Muslim he knew that Allah means the Potter in Koran. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Ik Ong Kaar is considered The Potter and Heaven is considered as a cool place and Hell as steaming hot cauldron. In contrast, in Hinduism a potter is just a low caste Hindu who shall remain as such forever, generation after generation. Here is the big difference in interpreting the Sakhi because of the word Potter which has totally a different meaning in these two cultures. In Hinduism, a potter is an outcast whereas in the Semitic religions The Potter is Ik Ong Kaar. But we know that Guru Nanak talked the language of the people he was interacting with. So, he knew what Potter meant to the Muslim which is Allah. [B]The Holy Bible[/B] Isaiah 64:8 (New International Version) 8 Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand Isaiah 45:9 (New International Version) 9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'? [B]The Holy Koran[/B] [55.14] He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels, [6.2] He it is Who created you from clay, then He decreed a term; and there is a term named with Him; still you doubt. [15:28-31] Your Lord said to the angels, "I am creating a human being from aged mud, like the potter's clay. Once I perfect him, and blow into him from My spirit, you shall fall prostrate before him. The angels fell prostrate; all of them, except Iblis (Satan). He refused to be with the prostrators. Now coming back to the Sakhi. If Ram Rai had changed the word from Musalmaan to Bayeemann, that would have been much more offensive because then it would indicate that all Musalmaans are Bayeemanns. In conclusion, the above incidence is not likely to have happened as it gets Ram Rai into bigger trouble. [URL="http://www.biblegateway.com/"]BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages.[/URL] [URL="http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/"]The Koran[/URL] [FONT=Verdana]Thanks & Regards Tejwant Singh PS: Certain things added to update the essay. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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