By Er. Satnam Singh Sidhu BC
God loves everyone. God gave equal rights to all genders.
The rigidity and inflexibility of any religion is harmful to human beings. Guru
Nanak said, " Why to put down women who gave birth to us and even
the mightiest of the world like kings, Napoleon, Alexandra, Prophets so on. I
am pretty sure Islam must have same rights for women as well. I have not got a
chance to read it yet. For sure interpretation of religion is wrong by the
preachers and that need to be revised and corrected. It is unfortunate that
every religion have those fanatics who want to create controversies and
discrimination against human beings through race, religion, color, gender and
any other way they could think of to make things difficult for people to belief
and practice. Guru Arjan Dev ji and Guru Tej Bahadur ji in 16th and 17th
century have to bear unrelenting torture by Muslim emperors in Lahore and Delhi
respectively. Those rulers tortured them to the end to force them to join Islam
or show your Prophet Power and Miracles. It was refused by Gurus not that they
did not respect Islam but because they said," Everyone have right to pray
to God what ever way they want. Everyone is free to pray to God including
women. Two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji were arrested by Muslim emperor
and were lured, threatened and tortured to death in Sirhind, Punjab. They both
refused to join Islam. Islam is a beautiful religion and big part of
world follow the Islam. But intimidation and violence are never the ingredients
of any religion and it never would be. It was proven to arrogant Muslim
fundamentalists by ten Sikh Gurus and Sikhs through their love, peace,
perseverance and faith in One God to whom we all belong including women, men,
gays, lesbians and atheists. Sikhs respect Islam and love Muslims and all other
religions in same manner as a Sikh love a Sikh. All religions are great and
respectable and people who follow any religion are equally respectful. That is
why one of Sikh of Guru Nanak was a Muslim and most beloved companion to Guru;
Guru Arjan Dev ji, Fifth Guru, gave the honor of inauguration of Sri Harmandir
Sahib (Golden Temple_ a place of worship open to all mankind of all religions,
atheists including all genders) in Amritsar, Punjab to a Muslim saint Sai Mia
Mir; Tenth Guru Gobind Singh had so many Sikhs who were Muslim and always
remained Muslim, but those Muslims had great attachment and love for Guru
Gobind Singh ji and they fought against the tyranny of fundamentalist Muslim rulers
and the army to maintain justice and harmony in this world. They remained true
to their own religion and to Guru Gobind Singh. One of city in Punjab named
Malerkotla as of today is still a home of Muslims in majority. Please
visit the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malerkotla
to learn the history and Muslims will feel proud of it. Being a religious does
not mean putting down other faiths albeit being a religious means cooperate
with other religious people of same and different religious faiths. Sikh Gurus
did not start a new religion, they taught the fundamentalist religious fanatic
people to be respectful of each other and build a society of love and peace and
not of hate and violence. It is time to recognize those fanatics in every
religion and fight against them because they are leading parts in every
religion and creating lots of unrest and hatred in this world. At present time
Muslims had been portrayed as terrorists by some countries, who portray
themselves as the ambassador of peace, and doing the same damage to Muslim
community all over the world, must stop doing so. Both communities's evil
fanatics are damaging our beautiful world. It is up to us to recognize those
fanatics and condemn them and discard them from our religions. Whether it is
Osama Bin Laden and his associates or it is Bush and his associates. Women and
earth are both our mothers and both need protection from evils. Join together
and kill the evil before it kills us. Kill the evil inside every human being to
make him humble and peace preserver and never kill the human being. No human is
evil, it is ones negative thinking that is evil.
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