persian

Significance of Contemporary Persian Sources Relating to Guru Gobind Singh Dr Kirpal Singh http://www.sikhinstitute.org/apr_2009/7-kirpsi.html Persian was the court language when the Sikh Gurus gave their sermons. It is therefore very significant that the contemporary Persian sources...

Estimated by experts to be the thirteenth most spoken language on the planet, Punjabi is currently considered to have more than 90 million native speakers. It is the official language of the Sikhs, a monotheistic religion popular on the Indian subcontinent, and all official Sikh rituals and...

Zafarnama Read In Farsi (Persian) Explained in English YouTube- Zafarnama 1/2 with English Translation - Guru Gobind Singh 1707 - Recited in original Persian YouTube- Zafarnama 2/2 with English Translation - Guru Gobind Singh 1707 - Recited in original Persian

Significance of Contemporary Persian Sources Relating to Guru Gobind Singh Dr Kirpal Singh Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh Persian was the court language when the Sikh Gurus gave their sermons. It is therefore very significant that the contemporary Persian sources are studied...

I thought I'd post my old posts from History of the Sikhs: Sikh History From Persian Sources! here: I have taken the Liberty of posting a few texts from DR JS Grewal and Irfan Habib's book - Sikh History From Persian Sources....... pg 93 - Akhbar's Meeting with Guru Arjan Here Guru Ji shows...

The following is a translation from a Persian manuscript completed in 1731 by Khafi Khan regarding the Moghul battles with Banda Singh Bahadur. I made a few notes (in brackets) highlighting points I feel are interesting. ----------------------- (Siege of Lohgarh) The wretched chief of...