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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: 165275" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>My dear sister Ishna gingerteakaur</p><p> </p><p>Thank you again for your reply! This is much appreciated as you are raising very important and thought-provoking issues. </p><p> </p><p>Oh no I wasn't implying that the word <em>witchcraft </em>refers to passing children through fire, nor that this was the crime innocent people were convicted for during the Middle Ages. I was rather explaining that in the context of the use of witchcraft in the Torah it was in relation to the sacrifice of children to Moloch ie the biblical injuction was towards a very specific thing, without any wider applications in the sacred text itself. </p><p> </p><p>And I agree with you as to the horrors of the Inquisition, particularly the Cathar heresy. However it <em>was </em>secular courts that repressed these innocent people. Yes Church authorities as stated earlier, in violation of Catholic teachings - such as numerous canon laws prohibiting capital punishment outright - collaborated with these authorities starting from the late 12th century (1,200 years after Jesus) by handing innocent people convicted of heresy over to the secular authorities, knowing that they would most likely be killed. This was outrageous, which is why Pope John Paul II spent much of his reign making apologies and trying to atone for the sins of these individuals. </p><p> </p><p>However there is a difference between these wicked individuals and the loving teachings of Christ and the Catholic Church. But the point is that one can quote from the Bible and the Church Fathers ans show exactly how these people were going directly against teachings of the faith, which specified that you are not allowed to execute someone for heresy etc. </p><p> </p><p>If you look at the teachings of the Church - how could these inquisitors have been acting in accordance with the Catholic faith when they were ignoring the canons, teachings of Jesus the explicit teaches of the Fathers many centuries before which prohibited capital punishment and indeed more particularly death penalty for heresy or witchcraft (which only received a canonical penalty - excommunication from the Church for a period of 7 months!). </p><p> </p><p>The inquisitors had no authority to change these teachings, they ignored these teachings. </p><p> </p><p>The difference between the bible passages you refer too and the Qur'anic ones is that they are from the <em>Old Testament, specifically the Torah of Moses who lived many centuries before Christ. </em></p><p> </p><p>They are not from the New Testament. There are no New Testament verses that condemn people to death, or mention execution for witchcraft etc. </p><p> </p><p>When reading the Old Testament one must keep in mind <em>progressive revelation. </em></p><p> </p><p>Jesus overturned numerous old Testament laws since they were the result of ancient people who were gradually coming out of barbarism towards enlightenment. </p><p> </p><p>One cannot take Old Testament passages overturned by Christ, that were revealed nearly 2,000 years before Muhammad and surely compare these ancient peoples, in far less enlightened times, to people living in the 7th century AD? </p><p> </p><p>For example, in Old Testament times people were stoned to death for adultery. Jesus stopped this by saving an adulterous woman's life. The Church Fathers overturned the capital punishments of the Old Testament and prohibited the death penalty. </p><p> </p><p>Christianity got rid of Jewish circumcision, dietary rules, ritual purifications etc. One could go on. </p><p> </p><p>What we see in the Bible is gradual enlightenment and evolution in morality from the Torah to the Gospels. My dear sister Ishna, all of your quotations have been from the earliest parts of the Bible, whose oral traditions go back over a thousand years before Christ, and nearly 2,000 years before Muhammad and not once have you referred to the New Testament, which is the Holy Book produced by the Catholic Church - not the Old Testament, which we inherited and re-interpreted in light of the new Christian religion. </p><p> </p><p>Christians do not circumcise, or observe dietary laws or do any of the other injuctions commanded by the Old Testament. That's why its the Old Testament - ie Testament - "Covenant", we are not bound by it we are followers of the New Covenant instituted by Jesus. We read and understand the Old Testament in light of the New Testament and Sacred Tradition. </p><p> </p><p>To compare the Qur'an and the Bible fairly then would one not need to compare the Qur'an and the New Testament which is the actual book produced by the Catholic Church? </p><p> </p><p>If I were a Jew, an adherent of the Old Covenant and speaking about the Qur'an, this would be a different matter altogether and you would be completely correct. However as a Christian it is the New Covenant, both in its written form in the New Testament and in its un-written form in Sacred Tradition, that I am bound by. </p><p> </p><p>I look forward to your thoughts as always sister Ishna when you get back from work! kaurhug</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 165275, member: 17438"] My dear sister Ishna gingerteakaur Thank you again for your reply! This is much appreciated as you are raising very important and thought-provoking issues. Oh no I wasn't implying that the word [I]witchcraft [/I]refers to passing children through fire, nor that this was the crime innocent people were convicted for during the Middle Ages. I was rather explaining that in the context of the use of witchcraft in the Torah it was in relation to the sacrifice of children to Moloch ie the biblical injuction was towards a very specific thing, without any wider applications in the sacred text itself. And I agree with you as to the horrors of the Inquisition, particularly the Cathar heresy. However it [I]was [/I]secular courts that repressed these innocent people. Yes Church authorities as stated earlier, in violation of Catholic teachings - such as numerous canon laws prohibiting capital punishment outright - collaborated with these authorities starting from the late 12th century (1,200 years after Jesus) by handing innocent people convicted of heresy over to the secular authorities, knowing that they would most likely be killed. This was outrageous, which is why Pope John Paul II spent much of his reign making apologies and trying to atone for the sins of these individuals. However there is a difference between these wicked individuals and the loving teachings of Christ and the Catholic Church. But the point is that one can quote from the Bible and the Church Fathers ans show exactly how these people were going directly against teachings of the faith, which specified that you are not allowed to execute someone for heresy etc. If you look at the teachings of the Church - how could these inquisitors have been acting in accordance with the Catholic faith when they were ignoring the canons, teachings of Jesus the explicit teaches of the Fathers many centuries before which prohibited capital punishment and indeed more particularly death penalty for heresy or witchcraft (which only received a canonical penalty - excommunication from the Church for a period of 7 months!). The inquisitors had no authority to change these teachings, they ignored these teachings. The difference between the bible passages you refer too and the Qur'anic ones is that they are from the [I]Old Testament, specifically the Torah of Moses who lived many centuries before Christ. [/I] They are not from the New Testament. There are no New Testament verses that condemn people to death, or mention execution for witchcraft etc. When reading the Old Testament one must keep in mind [I]progressive revelation. [/I] Jesus overturned numerous old Testament laws since they were the result of ancient people who were gradually coming out of barbarism towards enlightenment. One cannot take Old Testament passages overturned by Christ, that were revealed nearly 2,000 years before Muhammad and surely compare these ancient peoples, in far less enlightened times, to people living in the 7th century AD? For example, in Old Testament times people were stoned to death for adultery. Jesus stopped this by saving an adulterous woman's life. The Church Fathers overturned the capital punishments of the Old Testament and prohibited the death penalty. Christianity got rid of Jewish circumcision, dietary rules, ritual purifications etc. One could go on. What we see in the Bible is gradual enlightenment and evolution in morality from the Torah to the Gospels. My dear sister Ishna, all of your quotations have been from the earliest parts of the Bible, whose oral traditions go back over a thousand years before Christ, and nearly 2,000 years before Muhammad and not once have you referred to the New Testament, which is the Holy Book produced by the Catholic Church - not the Old Testament, which we inherited and re-interpreted in light of the new Christian religion. Christians do not circumcise, or observe dietary laws or do any of the other injuctions commanded by the Old Testament. That's why its the Old Testament - ie Testament - "Covenant", we are not bound by it we are followers of the New Covenant instituted by Jesus. We read and understand the Old Testament in light of the New Testament and Sacred Tradition. To compare the Qur'an and the Bible fairly then would one not need to compare the Qur'an and the New Testament which is the actual book produced by the Catholic Church? If I were a Jew, an adherent of the Old Covenant and speaking about the Qur'an, this would be a different matter altogether and you would be completely correct. However as a Christian it is the New Covenant, both in its written form in the New Testament and in its un-written form in Sacred Tradition, that I am bound by. I look forward to your thoughts as always sister Ishna when you get back from work! kaurhug [/QUOTE]
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