ਪਰਤਛਿ ਰਿਦੈ ਗੁਰ ਅਰਜੁਨ ਕੈ ਹਰਿ ਪੂਰਨ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਿ ਨਿਵਾਸੁ ਲੀਅਉ ॥੫॥
The Perfect Lord has manifested Himself and resides within the heart of Guru Arjan. ||5||
- Bhaṭṭ Mathurā, Savayye Mahallā 5, Aṅg 1409, Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib Jī.
October 17, 1762: A total solar eclipse passed over northern India on Diwali. Ganda Singh, citing various sources, claims it lasted 18 gharis— over seven hours. Modern calculations place it between one and four in the afternoon. It was ‘in the grey light of a sun in total
Video of Giani Pinderpal Singh warrmly embracing Pakistani Muslim preacher Adnan Rashid at a mosque in Doha, Qatar.
Adnan Rashid is known for his derogatory and deceitful rhetoric against Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib and his defence of Aurangzeb.
Giani Pinderpal Singh has been
It is remarkable to see these people sneer about “Sikh bravery in Pakistan and Afghanistan” when the historical record shows the opposite.
In 1990 Hindu communities in Sindh who had been abandoned by the Indian state found their only protection not from Delhi but from Sikh
Nihangs under Akali Sadhu Singh charging at the breach in the Multan fort during the Siege Battle of Multan in 1818, by Devender Singh, 1960s.
One of the most fiercely contested victories of the Sikhs over the Afghans- the Sikhs took the strongest Saddozai fort in the Bari Doab
In the wake of widespread Islamist mob assaults on Sikh religious sites in Lahore and throughout West Punjab in August 1947, Maharaja Yadvinder Singh of Patiala resolved to compel the Muslim League leadership to prevent further attacks on Nankana Sahib, the revered birthplace of
The Illustrated London News, 6 September 1947.
Indian soldiers of the Bihar regiment rounding up and shooting armed Sikh jathas to prevent them from crossing the border to Lahore.
ਜਬੈ ਬਾਣ ਲਾਗ੍ਯਿੋ ॥
ਤਬੈ ਰੋਸ ਜਾਗ੍ਯਿੋ ॥
When the arrow hit my body, it awakened martial rancour.
ਕਰੰ ਲੈ ਕਮਾਣੰ ॥
ਹਨੰ ਬਾਣ ਤਾਣੰ ॥੩੧॥
I took the bow in my hand and shot the arrow back.
- Sri Bachitarnatak, Guru Gobind Singh.
Jaspat Rai Khatri was a Hindu Jagirdar of Eminabad in Gujranwala under the Mughal Subedar of Lahore. He would routinely pillage the lands of poor farmers, extract taxes by force and hurl insults to Sikh Gurus. The Dal Khalsa would recruit the dissenting peasants and they would
If you come yourself in village Kangar, we can meet each other.
Do not bring in your mind the danger of coming there.
Because the Brar (Jatt) community acts according to my orders. [59]
So what, if you have killed my four sons? The hooded cobra (the Guru Khalsa) still sits
An elderly Master Tara Singh fulfilling the tankhah penance imposed on him by the Panj Pyaras of the Akal Takht for breaking his solemn oath to fulfil a fast unto death to pressure the Congress government to divide Punjab on a linguistic basis, November 1961.
“He [Guru Hargobind] was a man firmly believing in One [God] and comprehending the Unique One. Someone asked him about the reality of the universe’s existence and the condition of being and existence. He replied, ‘The world is a mere appearance without [real] being, something