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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 167304" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>Brother Auzer ji :sippingcoffeemunda:</p><p> </p><p>LOL I never said that you were pushing myths about Islamic civilisation, I said that you were "discounting" them (proving them false). You have misunderstood me :motherlylove:</p><p> </p><p>My point was though the Dark Ages idea is a myth. Its also been discounted by modern historians, although sadly that hasn't filtered down yet to the public, or so it seems. Its an enlightenment falsehood made up by the likes of Voltaire and Gibbons as propaganda for their minority of atheists and secularists in Europe - trying to claim that with them a new age of freedom was dawning free of the constraints and shackles of religion. It was a pious myth, manufactured for obvious intent, that has now been disproved. </p><p> </p><p>I don't want to turn a thread about Islam into one about Christianity but, if you ask me, then I will oblige. </p><p> </p><p>Well there is two questions here - the Dark Ages "myth" and the Renaissance and Scientific revolution being "secular". </p><p> </p><p>I'll focus on the first one for a couple of posts over a few days (I'm busy but I'll fit it in).</p><p> </p><p>First sociologist Rodney Stark. I'll present in this post a summary of his findings and then elucidate on them in my next post, with quotes and references etc.: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Capitalism and ideals of freedom developed in the "dark ages": </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The first culture to abolish slavery was "Dark Age" Europe when one could not enslave a fellow European Christian :sippingcoffeemunda:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">In the next post I'm going to dwell on the slavery aspect - moral advancement, which you haven't touched upon yet in this thread (only technological). </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">And then I'm going to elucidate some more from historians on the points above and then talk about the myth of "secularism" in the foundation of the scientific revolution. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Mind you I will not be claiming that because of the strong Christian faith of most of these innovaters and scientists of the Scientific Revolution that this makes their works a "Christian achievement". That is too simplistic and actually wrong - a person's achievements in my opinion stand on their own irrespective of their faith. However their Christian faith was instrumental to their desire to innovate in this regard and was a powerful impulse. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I will also be looking into the difference between Al-Ghazzali in the Islamic world and Saint Thomas Aquinas in "dark age" Europe - the latter who embraced the works and learning of Ancient Greek philosophers and the former who essentially, around the year 1111, closed the Muslim mind to ancient "pagan" learning because he declared it to be "un-Islamic" and so of no use. This decision drastically changed Islamic civilisation for the worse. It never used Greek philosophy again and this lead to the eventual crumbling of the social fabric of the Islamic world after a fleeting but truly golden age in the ninth century. The extent to which Islam itself caused that ninth century Golden Age is debated just as the extent to which Christianity had to the European Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. Some historians call the "Islamic" Golden Age the "North African, Persian and Spanish" etc. Golden Age - meaning that the Arab Empires through conquering brought together vast areas of people and cultures but Islam had little to do with actual innovation and actually helped the demise of innovation when the free-thinking Mutazili Muslims were declared heretics and Orthodoxy was imposed. Others maintain that the intellectual, more free atmosphere of Islamic thought in this time - compared to the time of Ghazzali in the 1000s and ever after - was essential to the achievements of this era. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I'm not going to engage in this side of the debate though - I leave that too brothers Auzer ji and Searching ji. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 167304, member: 17438"] Brother Auzer ji :sippingcoffeemunda: LOL I never said that you were pushing myths about Islamic civilisation, I said that you were "discounting" them (proving them false). You have misunderstood me :motherlylove: My point was though the Dark Ages idea is a myth. Its also been discounted by modern historians, although sadly that hasn't filtered down yet to the public, or so it seems. Its an enlightenment falsehood made up by the likes of Voltaire and Gibbons as propaganda for their minority of atheists and secularists in Europe - trying to claim that with them a new age of freedom was dawning free of the constraints and shackles of religion. It was a pious myth, manufactured for obvious intent, that has now been disproved. I don't want to turn a thread about Islam into one about Christianity but, if you ask me, then I will oblige. Well there is two questions here - the Dark Ages "myth" and the Renaissance and Scientific revolution being "secular". I'll focus on the first one for a couple of posts over a few days (I'm busy but I'll fit it in). First sociologist Rodney Stark. I'll present in this post a summary of his findings and then elucidate on them in my next post, with quotes and references etc.: [SIZE=3]Capitalism and ideals of freedom developed in the "dark ages": [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The first culture to abolish slavery was "Dark Age" Europe when one could not enslave a fellow European Christian :sippingcoffeemunda:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]In the next post I'm going to dwell on the slavery aspect - moral advancement, which you haven't touched upon yet in this thread (only technological). [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]And then I'm going to elucidate some more from historians on the points above and then talk about the myth of "secularism" in the foundation of the scientific revolution. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Mind you I will not be claiming that because of the strong Christian faith of most of these innovaters and scientists of the Scientific Revolution that this makes their works a "Christian achievement". That is too simplistic and actually wrong - a person's achievements in my opinion stand on their own irrespective of their faith. However their Christian faith was instrumental to their desire to innovate in this regard and was a powerful impulse. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I will also be looking into the difference between Al-Ghazzali in the Islamic world and Saint Thomas Aquinas in "dark age" Europe - the latter who embraced the works and learning of Ancient Greek philosophers and the former who essentially, around the year 1111, closed the Muslim mind to ancient "pagan" learning because he declared it to be "un-Islamic" and so of no use. This decision drastically changed Islamic civilisation for the worse. It never used Greek philosophy again and this lead to the eventual crumbling of the social fabric of the Islamic world after a fleeting but truly golden age in the ninth century. The extent to which Islam itself caused that ninth century Golden Age is debated just as the extent to which Christianity had to the European Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. Some historians call the "Islamic" Golden Age the "North African, Persian and Spanish" etc. Golden Age - meaning that the Arab Empires through conquering brought together vast areas of people and cultures but Islam had little to do with actual innovation and actually helped the demise of innovation when the free-thinking Mutazili Muslims were declared heretics and Orthodoxy was imposed. Others maintain that the intellectual, more free atmosphere of Islamic thought in this time - compared to the time of Ghazzali in the 1000s and ever after - was essential to the achievements of this era. [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I'm not going to engage in this side of the debate though - I leave that too brothers Auzer ji and Searching ji. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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