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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: 165266" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>My dear brother Naben ji, </p><p> </p><p>Thank you for your reply to me, however rather than bringing ease to my mind, it has actually <em>strengthened </em>my concerns. </p><p> </p><p>"The believers are but brothers" - consider this statement. Does it not exhibit such narrow-mindedness and enclosure? Only other Muslims are your brothers? There are famile secrets that only Muslims share with other Muslims? If your not a member of the Islamic faith then your not in "the brotherhood"? </p><p> </p><p>I fiond it encouraging that you call us all "brothers", but how does that correlate with the verse of the Qur'an you have quoted above? </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Qur'an says: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">- Qur'an 48:29</span> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Now lets compare that with the Bible: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for <span style="color: black">he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.</span> For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>- Jesus Christ (Gospel of Matthew 5:44-48)</em></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Whereas the Qur'an seems to say that Muslims should be hard towards disbelievers and merciful only to one another, Christian love and charity extends beyond the boundaries of family and faith, to all in need. As Saint Cyprian, the martyred third-century Bishop of Carthage explained, "<strong>there is nothing remarkable in cherishing merely our own people with the due attentions of love...Thus the good was done to all men, not merely to the household of faith". </strong></p><p> </p><p>Thus in the year 165, when plagues attacked Rome, the pagan Romans left their family members to die, and even threw them out into the streets, while the Christians of the Empire went out into the streets and cared for the sick pagans, irrespective of their religion, nursing them back to help with many Christians dying of the disease as a result of these selfless acts of charity. </p><p> </p><p>The pagans of Rome were amazed by this, which is why they started converting to Christianity and it eventually became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. </p><p> </p><p>And so Pope Pius said back in the 1860s: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">"...[Many non-Christians are] <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 12px">ready to obey God, they live honest lives and are able to attain eternal life by the efficacious virtue of divine light and grace; because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all...</span></span>God forbid, then, that the children of the Catholic Church should even in any way be unfriendly to those who are not at all united to us by the same bonds of faith [non-Christians]. On the contrary, let them be eager always to attend to their needs with all the kind services of Christian charity, whether they are poor or sick or suffering any other kind of visitation...” </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>- Blessed Pope Pius IX (QUANTO CONFICIAMUR, August 10, 1863)</em></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px">“…I want to accustom all the inhabitants, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and nonbelievers, to look on me as their brother, the universal brother. Already they’re calling this house “the fraternity” (khaoua in Arabic) — about which I’m delighted — and realizing that the poor have a brother here — not only the poor, though: all men…Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity…”</span></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: blue"><em><span style="color: black">- Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858- 1916), Catholic mystic and martyr</span></em></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="font-size: 12px">And indeed all men and women are brothers and sisters regardless of faith: </span></em></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px">"...All of humankind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such. May shame and infamy overtake those impious wretches who seek a cruel unnatural glory in the blood of their brothers, which is their own blood...All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers..." </span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>- Archbishop François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715) (Let. 30), Catholic mystic </em></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px">"...What a wonderful vision, which makes us contemplate the human race in the unity of its origin in God...This divine law of solidarity and charity assures that <strong>all men are truly brothers</strong>, without excluding the rich variety of persons, cultures and societies..." </span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>- Pope Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus (On the Unity of Human Society) October 12, 1939</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 165266, member: 17438"] My dear brother Naben ji, Thank you for your reply to me, however rather than bringing ease to my mind, it has actually [I]strengthened [/I]my concerns. "The believers are but brothers" - consider this statement. Does it not exhibit such narrow-mindedness and enclosure? Only other Muslims are your brothers? There are famile secrets that only Muslims share with other Muslims? If your not a member of the Islamic faith then your not in "the brotherhood"? I fiond it encouraging that you call us all "brothers", but how does that correlate with the verse of the Qur'an you have quoted above? The Qur'an says: [SIZE=3]"...Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]- Qur'an 48:29[/SIZE] Now lets compare that with the Bible: [SIZE=3]"...But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for [COLOR=black]he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.[/COLOR] For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][I]- Jesus Christ (Gospel of Matthew 5:44-48)[/I][/SIZE] Whereas the Qur'an seems to say that Muslims should be hard towards disbelievers and merciful only to one another, Christian love and charity extends beyond the boundaries of family and faith, to all in need. As Saint Cyprian, the martyred third-century Bishop of Carthage explained, "[B]there is nothing remarkable in cherishing merely our own people with the due attentions of love...Thus the good was done to all men, not merely to the household of faith". [/B] Thus in the year 165, when plagues attacked Rome, the pagan Romans left their family members to die, and even threw them out into the streets, while the Christians of the Empire went out into the streets and cared for the sick pagans, irrespective of their religion, nursing them back to help with many Christians dying of the disease as a result of these selfless acts of charity. The pagans of Rome were amazed by this, which is why they started converting to Christianity and it eventually became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. And so Pope Pius said back in the 1860s: [LEFT][SIZE=3]"...[Many non-Christians are] [SIZE=4][SIZE=3]ready to obey God, they live honest lives and are able to attain eternal life by the efficacious virtue of divine light and grace; because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all...[/SIZE][/SIZE]God forbid, then, that the children of the Catholic Church should even in any way be unfriendly to those who are not at all united to us by the same bonds of faith [non-Christians]. On the contrary, let them be eager always to attend to their needs with all the kind services of Christian charity, whether they are poor or sick or suffering any other kind of visitation...” [/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][I]- Blessed Pope Pius IX (QUANTO CONFICIAMUR, August 10, 1863)[/I][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3]“…I want to accustom all the inhabitants, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and nonbelievers, to look on me as their brother, the universal brother. Already they’re calling this house “the fraternity” (khaoua in Arabic) — about which I’m delighted — and realizing that the poor have a brother here — not only the poor, though: all men…Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity…”[/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue][I][COLOR=black]- Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858- 1916), Catholic mystic and martyr[/COLOR][/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][I][SIZE=3]And indeed all men and women are brothers and sisters regardless of faith: [/SIZE][/I][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=4]"...All of humankind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such. May shame and infamy overtake those impious wretches who seek a cruel unnatural glory in the blood of their brothers, which is their own blood...All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers..." [/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=4][I]- Archbishop François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715) (Let. 30), Catholic mystic [/I][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=4]"...What a wonderful vision, which makes us contemplate the human race in the unity of its origin in God...This divine law of solidarity and charity assures that [B]all men are truly brothers[/B], without excluding the rich variety of persons, cultures and societies..." [/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=4][I]- Pope Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus (On the Unity of Human Society) October 12, 1939[/I][/SIZE][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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