The media has been lately inundated with the news of the threat by Sohail Butt Attari, of Lahore to close the Gurudwara Shaheed Ganj and open the mosque there. Here, an attempt has been made to understand the whole picture based on the media reports.
Let us not forget our heritage, and reignite the spirit of faith inspired by Bhai Taru Singh's Sacrifice
Guru Ji was never an aggressor, nor did he ever fight for wealth, land, property or for women. The battles were all essentially in self-defense. The success in these battles instilled Sikhs with new found zeal, and self-confidence which was lacking earlier.
On Tuesday, after the procession wound through Houston, he came to rest in Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, in the same cemetery next to his mother, whom he was calling while being pinned down.
The Lord is all love and mercy. In His court true repentance never goes unrewarded.
The impact of Babur's invasions on the citizens lasting 20 years that culminated in his eventual annexation, have not been documented from victim’s perspective or recorded in history. But we have some very insightful first- hand account to fill the gap.
Those who consider themselves as being the elite, privileged, because of the color of the skin and perpetuate discrimination will do well to answer the question posed by Kabir to the so called elites of his times in Banaras in these words:
Physically alone is not necessarily loneliness, if there is a connection with the inner self.
This message of Kabir Ji should be wakeup call for us, serving as a reminder of the inevitable. At that time the body would be consumed by fire and reduced to ashes, and dust.