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« on: June 20, 2010, 02:25:20 PM »
List of Gurdwaras in Pakistan
Gurdwaras in Pakistan are an essential part of Sikhism and form an important part of the history of Sikhism. The Punjab was only divided in 1947 when the separate nations of India and Pakistan were formed. Before this, the area covered by the two countries was one nation.The tower of a former gurdwara, converted into a school in FaisalabadThe following is a list of important places in Sikh history:
Punjab
Nankana Sahib This is the most sacred Sikh place; the location of the birth of the Sikh founder, Guru Nanak. Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib - This site is ‘Janam Asthan’ meaning ‘Place of Birth’ and childhood home. Gurdwara Bal Lilah, Nankana Sahib - This site is connected with adventures of the early childhood of the Guru. Gurdwara Patti Sahib, Nankana Sahib – ‘Patti’ means ‘Alphabet’ and is the site where Guru Nanak learnt the various different languages and particular the alphabet of these languages. Gurdwara Mall Ji Sahib, Nankana Sahib - This site is connected with adventures of the early childhood of the Guru in particular the events link to the Cobra and Mehta Kalu Gurdwara Kiara Sahib, Nankana Sahib - This site is where, as a youngster, Guru Nanak used to graze cattle. It is at a distance of about 1.5 km from the Janam Asthan. Gurdwara Tambu Sahib, Nankana Sahib Gurdwara Guru Hargobind Sahib, Nankana Sahib Gurdwara Nihang Singhan, Nankana Sahib Gurdwara Sachcha Sauda, Chuharkana Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Hasan Abdal – This is the site where Guru Nanak Dev Ji stopped the rock with his hand and the palm print is impressed on the rock. Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi, Lahore Gurdwara Sri Nank Garh, Lahore Baoli Sahib Sri Guru Amar Das, Lahore (Roofed Well) Parkash Asthan Sri Guru Ram Das, Lahore Gurdwara Diwan Khana, Lahore Dharamshala Sri Guru Ramdas, Lahore Gurdwara Baoli Sahib Guru Arjan Dev, Lahore Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartar Pur, Shakargarh Gurdwara Bhai Budhu Da Awa, Lahore Gurdwara Lal Khooh, Lahore Gurdwara Dehra Sahib Sri Guru Arjan Dev, Lahore Gurdwara Patshahi Chhevin Gurdwara Patshahi Chhevin Muzang Gurdwara Shikargarh Patshahi Chhevin, Lahore Shahid Ganj Bhai Taru Singh Gurdwara Shahid Ganj Sighnian, Lahore Shahid Ganj Bhai Mani Singh, Lahore Gurdwara Beri Sahib, Sialkot Gurdwara Rori Sahib, Eminabad Gurdwara Chakki Sahib, Eminabad Gurdwara Khuhi Bhai Lalo, Eminabad
Sindh
Sri Guru Nanak Sat Sang Sabha Gurdwara, Aram Bagh, Karachi Manora Gurdwara, Manora, Karachi Gurdwara Karachi Sikh Sangat, Ranchore Line, Karachi Gurdwara Ratan Tala, Near Preedy Police Station, Karachi Adam Goth Gurdwara, Gulshan-e-Maymar, Karachi Gurudwara Pehli Patshahi, Justice Kayani Road, Karachi Gurudwara Pehli Patshahi, Clifton, Karachi
North West Frontier Province
Gurdwara Kali Devi, Dera Ismail Khan Gurudwara Dharamshala Guru Nanak Dev, Dera Ismail Khan Gurdwara Chhevin Patshahi, Chitti Gatti, Mansehra Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh, Peshawar Gurdwara Gurhatri, Peshawar
Balochistan
Gurdwara Pehli Pathshahi, Quetta Gurdwara Tilganji Sahib, Quetta
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« on: June 20, 2010, 01:24:54 PM »
Sikhism in PakistanSikhism in Pakistan has an extensive heritage and history, although Sikhs form a very small community in the Islamic Republic today. Most Sikhs live in the province of Punjab, where the religion was born in the middle ages. Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, is located in the Pakistani province. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Sikh community became a powerful political force, with Sikh leader Ranjit Singh founding the first Sikh empire, which had its capital in Lahore, the second-largest city in Pakistan today. Significant populations of Sikhs inhabited the largest cities in the Punjab such as Lahore, Rawalpindi and Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), as well as the neighbouring Northwest Frontier Province. However, when India was partitioned in 1947 to create the Muslim state of Pakistan, a significant portion of the Punjab region became part of the new state. Ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs led to a major exodus of those communities from Pakistan into India; conversely Muslims in the Indian territory were subject to the same ethnic cleansing and forced migration to Pakistan. Large numbers of Sikh places of worship (gurdwaras) were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of Sikhs were killed. In the decades following Pakistan's creation, the Sikh community began to re-organise, forming the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PGPC) to represent the community and protect the holy sites and heritage of the Sikh religion in Pakistan. The Pakistani government has begun to allow Sikhs from India to make pilgrimages to Sikh places of worship in Pakistan and for Pakistani Sikhs to travel to India. Pakistan's estimated population was 172,800,000 in July 2008[1], 96% Muslim, with Christians (1.6%) and Hindus (1.85%) making up the largest minority faiths, according to the last census taken in 1998[2]. Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Ahmadi Muslims and some adherents to animist religions make up the remainder.
Before the Partition of India and Pakistan
Prior to the Partition of India in 1947, which divided British India into its successor states of Pakistan and India, Sikhs were spread all across the region of Punjab and played an important role in its economy as businessmen and traders. Lahore, the capital of (now Pakistan) Punjab was then and still is today the location of many important religious and historical sites for Sikhs, including the Samadhi of Ranjit Singh. The nearby town of Nankana Sahib has nine gurdwaras, and is the birthplace of Sikhism's founder, Guru Nanak Dev. Each of Nankana Sahib's gurdwaras are associated with different events in Guru Nanak Dev's life. The town remains an important site of pilgrimage for Sikhs worldwide.
After the creation of Pakistan
Nationwide, there are no reliable numerical figures for Sikhs in the country. Estimates vary, the US Department of State estimates 20,000[3]. The largest Sikh population in Pakistan is found in Peshawar, in the North-West Frontier Province, which was spared the scale of violence during partition that raged in Punjab. [4] There are small pockets of Sikhs in Lahore and Nankana Sahib in Punjab. The (West) Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan were mostly emptied of their Sikh and Hindu population in the communal massacres of partition, with nearly all fleeing for India. Today, segments of the populations of East Punjab and Haryana states and Delhi in India can trace their ancestry back to towns and villages now in Pakistan, including current Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
There has been an influx in the population of Sikhs in Pakistan due to the turbulent civil war and conflicts that have ravaged neighboring Afghanistan. [5] Afghanistan, like Pakistan, has had a very small Sikh and Hindu population. There has been a massive exodus of refugees from Afghanistan into Pakistan during the past 30 years of turmoil up to the reign of the Taliban and the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. Due to Pakistan's porous borders with Afghanistan, large numbers of Afghanistan's minority communities, based mainly around the cities of Kabul, Kandahar, and Jalalabad have fled, and some Sikhs have joined their kinsmen in Peshawar and Lahore.
The Sikh community in Pakistan in modern times
Until today, Sikhs have mainly kept a low profile within the monolithic population of Pakistan. [6] Though, Pakistan maintains the title of Islamic state, the articles twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two in chapter two of its constitution guarantees religious freedom to the non-Muslim residents[1]. Since indepdence in 1947, relations between Pakistan's minorities and the Muslim majority have remained fairly and politically stable. Until 2002, Pakistan held a system of separate electorates for all its national legislative assemblies, with only a handful of parliamentary seats reserved for minority members. Minorities were legally only permitted to vote for designated minority candidates in general elections. The regime of President General Pervez Musharraf has professed an agenda of equality for minorities and promotion and protection of minority rights, however, the implementation of corrective measures has been slow.
The historical and holy sites of Sikhs are maintained by a Pakistani governmental body, the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, which is responsible for their upkeep and preservation. Nonetheless, many Sikh shrines have fallen into disrepair since 1947,[7] as the remaining Sikh population and its corresponding manpower, economic power and political influence is minuscule compared to that of the pre-1947 community.
The emergence of the Sikh community within Pakistan
After the creation of Pakistan the Sikh community's rights were diminished.[8] Recently the Sikh community within Pakistan has been making every effort possible to progress in Pakistan. For example Harcharan Singh became the first Sikh to join the Pakistan army. For the first time in the 58 year history of Pakistan there has a Sikh been selected into Pakistan's army. Prior to Harcharan Singh's selection in the Pakistani army no individual person who was a member of the Hindu or the Sikh community were ever enrolled in the army, but there are reports which states that the Pakistani Christian community has served in the army and some had even reached into to the ranks of a Brigadier in the army. Moreover, members of the tiny Parsi community have some representation in the Armed Forces. [9] First time in the history of Pakistan as well as in the history of Lahore a Sikh person has been appointed as a traffic Sub Inspector. Dr. Gulab Singh who is just 25 years old, is a practising homeopathic doctor and he is from the same place as Harcharan Singh (Nankana Sahib). Gulab Singh is fluent in Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, Sindhi, and little bit of English.[10] In yet another contribution to the Pakistani Sikh community, Pakistan Government enacted the Sikh marriage act, Anand Marriage act, in November 2007. This Sikh marriage act allows not only the Sikhs in Pakistan, but also Sikhs living in anywhere in the world to register in Pakistan with the Sikh marriage act. [11] After the success of Harcharan Singh in Pakistan's army and Gulab Singh as a traffic inspector, now it's the turn of Kalyan Singh Kalyan who is the first Sikh Province Assembly Member in Pakistan and Kalyan is a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).[12] The first Sikh musician also emerged on the music industry in 2009, Jassi Lailpuria, launched his first song on independence day entitled, Sohna Pakistan.[13] Rupinder Singh Magon (Rup) from the band JoSH is also a superstar in Pakistan and is very popular among the youth of the country although he lives in Canada but travels to Pakistan a lot for Concerts and TV engagements. He, along with his band mate Qurram Hussain, was part of Coke Studio as well which is a big achievement.
Pakistani Sikh diaspora
According to the Pakistani religious laws that Sikhism is a monotheistic religion and therefore secured from violence beside the government, some Pakistani Sikhs have migrated abroad to countries like the United Kingdom and Canada, there is also a growing Pakistani Sikh community in Dubai. In the United Kingdom there are only a few hundred Pakistani Sikhs, 346 according to the 2001 census[14].
Persecution
Persecution of Pakistan's Sikh minority has been on the rise in the Taliban-controlled portions of the country since 2009. The Taliban have imposed a jizya on Sikhs and forced to pay a type of tax or being killed, leaving many to flee to safer regions of Pakistan.[15] There are widespread kidnappings and murders of Sikhs in the Khyber and Orakzai Agencies.[16] By July 2009, the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar had become a haven for over 3,000 displaced internal refugee Sikhs.[17] |
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« on: June 20, 2010, 10:44:02 AM »
When Guru Nanak attained the age of eighteen, his father Mehta Kalu thought of engaging him in trade, thinking that it would be a good profitable profession and secondly his son would be happy all day talking to his clients about his business. Thinking this way and choosing an auspicious day, he called Bhai Bala to be Guru Nanak's companion. He gave twenty rupees to Bhai Bala and said, "Go with Nanak. Buy and bring some genuine goods by selling of which we may save a lot. In this way if you make a profitable transaction, next time I will send you with more money to buy goods."
Guru Nanak and Bhai Bala started from Talwandi towards Chuharkana to purchase some merchandise. They had hardly gone ten or twelve miles from the village when they saw a group of hermits sitting in the jungle. Guru Nanak said to Bhai Bala, "Father has asked us to carry out some profitable transaction. No bargain can be more trully profitable than to feed and clothe these naked and hungry hermits. I cannot leave this true bargain. It is seldom that we get an opportunity to carry out some profitable transaction like this." Guru Nanak took all the money from Bhai Bala, placed it before the head of the hermits and said, "I offer this in your service."
The head of the hermits said, "Son, this money is of no use to us. We do not go to places where people live. We stay in the jungle. If you get meals prepared with this money, we will accept it." Guru Nanak and Bhai Bala went to the village nearby. They got meals prepared with that money and brought them to the hermits and distributed among them. They also brought clothes for the naked hermits with the money that was left. Taking leave of the head of the hermits, they started back empty-handed.
When both reached near Talwandi, Guru Nanak said to Bhai Bala, 'You go to the village alone, I shall sit at this well." Bhai Bala went to the village and narrated the whole story to Mehta Kalu. He told him where Guru Nanak was sitting. Mehta Kalu was very angry that they had wasted money on hermits in this way. Putting aside all work he took Bhai Bala along and started towards the well. Reaching the well, he caught hold of Guru Nanak and slapped him three or four times. Bhai Bala was telling Mehta Kalu at that time too, 'You told us when we started out to make a good bargain. You may or may not agree, Nanak has made a true bargain."
For Mehta Kalu, amassing of wealth was the only true bargain because in this world it is money which is the mark of nobility, it is the wealthy who is wise, only the rich are considered gentle, honest. pious and lovers of mankind. The means by which the money has been earned are of no consideration. Only those who make true transaction think about the ways and means.
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Article taken from . "Bedtime Stories" written by Santokh Singh Jagdev.
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« on: June 20, 2010, 10:36:42 AM »
After explaining some merits of truthful living at Lahore, Guru Nanak came to Talwandi to see his parents. Taking permission from them, he took Bhai Mardana with him and embarked on a long journey to the Hindu sacred places of pilgrimage. From Talwandi they reached Bhai Lalo's workshop at Saidpur which is now known as Aimanabad in Pakistan. Bhai Lalo was a carpenter of Ghataora caste who earned his living by honest labour. When Bhai Lalo saw two saints coming towards him, he put aside the work in hand and laid a bed for them. It was time for lunch so he went to prepare the meal.
After preparing the meal, Bhai Lalo requested Guru Nanak to come to the kitchen and eat his meal there. Guru Nanak said, "Bhai Lalo, every place is clean and pure for us. Please bring the meal here." Bhai Lalo obeyed the command of Guru Nanak and brought the meals to them. At the bidding of Guru Nanak, Bhai Mardana divided the meal into three parts and all ate it sitting together. After eating the meal, Bhai Mardana asked Guru Nanak, 'This meal tasted like nectar. What had been put in it ?" Guru Nanak replied, "Bhai Mardana, this was the taste of truthful earning which you tasted. This taste is above the taste of worldly delicacies."
On the third day, when Guru Nanak started to leave, Bhai Lalo requested Guru Nanak to stay on for a month. One day Malik Bhago, a high government official of the city, gave a general feast. He invited Guru Nanak to the feast. Guru Nanak declined the invitation saying, "We are fakirs, What have we to do with your feast ?" on receiving the second request from Malik Bhago, Guru Nanak took Bhai Lalo with him and went to Malik Bhago's residence. Malik Bhago said to Guru Nanak in great anger, "You are dishonouring Kshatris by eating dry chapaties in the house of a low caste carpenter. I invited you to this feast which offers delicious food. why are you refusing to eat this ?"
In order to make Malik Bhago understand, Guru Nanak took Bhai Lalo's dry chapati in his right hand and Malik Bhago's fried sweet cake in his left hand. When he pressed the right hand fist pointing it towards the poor, people saw that drops of milk of honest labour were dripping from it. When Guru Nanak pressed the fried sweet cake held in his left hand and pointed it towards the rich, the onlookers saw blood trickling from it.
Guru Nanak said, "Look Malik Bhago, wealth accumulated by cruelty towards the poor is like sucking their blood. Money collected retained the blood of the poor. you had invited me to partake of blood,leaving food pure as milk. How could I accept it ?" Hearing this Malik Bhago fell silent.
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Article taken from . "Bedtime Stories" written by Santokh Singh Jagdev.
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