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Guru Gobind Singh Ji, The Idol Breaker

Jun 1, 2004
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This is the most common question asked by a Hindu to a Sikh... Kindly put some light on the issue.


Jahan[b] said:
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During Guru Gobind Singh's wars with the Hill Rajas was the Khalsa army known to have destroyed any places of worship which contained Idols and other images of deities?

Im wondering now after reading one of the last verses of the Zafarnama in which Guru Gobind Singh writes to Aurangzeb:

"I am also the annihilator of the hill rajas, the idol worshippers. They are idol worshipers and I am the idol breaker." - [url]http://www.zafarnama.com/Download/zafarnama.pdf[/url]

Was there some kind of metaphor behind this or are we to take the verse in a literal sense?

If in literal sense, what does that mean about Guru Sahibs position on idol worshippers? Were they to be made war upon or simply not treated as those who believed in God?
 

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