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    Why All Sikhs Are Born With Hair?

    Satsriakal to all! This query may interest people of the whole world. God gave hair to all human beings. Why Guru Gobind Singh Ji gave Sikhs hair again as one of the five Kakaars? Please express your views. Balbir Singh
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    Sikh News Malaysian Employer Forcibly Cut Hair Of Sikh Workers (Fremover)

    A Malaysian employer forcibly cut the hair of three of her Sikh employees from India and prohibited them from wearing turbans – a grave violation of the religions centuries-old custom, a newspaper reported Sunday...
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    Hair Of 3 Sikhs Forcibly Cut_action Called For

    Today's newspapers (Times of India) reports this news item emanating from Kuala Lumpur where 3 Sikhs have alleged that their Malaysian employer forcibly cut their hairs and forbade them from wearing turbans when they arrived there from India. This is shocking and such events should be dealt...
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    Hair Of 3 Sikhs Forcibly Cut_action Called For

    Today's newspapers (Times of India) reports this news item emanating from Kuala Lumpur where 3 Sikhs have alleged that their Malaysian employer forcibly cut their hairs and forbade them from wearing turbans when they arrived there from India. This is shocking and such events should be dealt...
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    Sikh News Sikh Youth Hair Attack 'victim' Admits Hoax (CTV.ca)

    A Sikh youth in B.C. has apologized for inventing a story of being set upon by a group of white men who cut his hair. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=12k26nj0u/*http%3A//www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1117935462964_24/?hub=Canada
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    Sikh News Fists And Lawsuits Fly When A Sikh Congregation Ignites Over Turbans And Facial Hair. (Cleveland Sce

    A few weeks after September 11, a bearded man in a turban and a baggy Cleveland Indians jacket walked into Best Buy in Brook Park. Weaving through the crowd, the tall, lanky young man marched to the customer-service counter. His cell phone was broken. He traded it for a new one and left...
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    That Is Why I Have Kesh (Hair)

    Dear Khalsa Ji, Today, I share with you the reasons for my preserving the natural growth of my Kesh. This I am doing, because I am convinced that Khalsa Panth is a rational way to divinity and all round progress –materially, spiritually, physically, socially, and intellectually. This...
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    Sikh News Players Thrown Out Of Meet For Trimming Hair

    PATIALA, NOVEMBER 23: A Patiala-based college controlled by the SGPC has triggered off a controversy by debarring Sikh students from a sports meet for trimming their beards and hair. The games, held on the Khalsa College campus under the patronage of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak...
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    Q: Hair And Business

    I was wondering, how do Sikh men in the United States handle their religion in the work place? For example, keeping your hair and growing it out. How would a Sikh man handle this in let's say.... a business setting with strict uniform policies? <a href="http://mhlnk.com/B1419C65"...
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    Keeping Unshorn Hair

    I need some empirical and logical arguments to convince my teenagers to regrow their hair. They have cut their hair, because they feel they will be more acceptable and attractive this way.
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    Judaism Hair In Judaism

    Hair Symbolizes: Beauty, strength, holiness, mourning *In the Bible, a man could take a Nazirite vow and assume a certain kind of holiness. Part of this vow includes not cutting one's hair. Samson was a Nazirite whose hair held the secret to his strength. *Mourners do not cut...
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    Gurbani Says Hair Are Not Significant, Then Where Do We Stand ?

    We follow gurbani and live according to it on the path towards divinity then where does the immaterial thing of shape and identity divides sikhs. kabir ji says kabir preet eek saiyon aan naa dubidaa jaayae baahvain laambai kesh baahvain kharaar mundaiyan. i am not saying here to cut...
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    Why Sikhs Do Not Cut Their Hair But They Cut Their Nails?

    Q: Why Sikhs do not cut their hair but they cut their nails? A: It is often argued that hair and nails are similar, but even a superficial study of the two shows them to be extremely different from each other. Hair is not a hindrance to anyone. Because hair can be placed in a bun and kept...
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    Sikhism Why Do Sikhs Keep Hair?

    A: This question is asked a lot “Why do you keep hair?” Hair is a gift from God, therefore why should anyone throw it away by cutting it? Sikhs live the way God made humans and never cut their hair. For Sikhs hair is the symbol of love for God and the respect for everything He has given us. The...
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