Sahibe Kamal -8

In dedication to Guru Gobind Singh ji

Guru Gobind Singh ji had decided to uplift the overall personality and character of his Sikhs before he could launch his grand event the creation of Khalsa. Once during a small skirmish with Moguls, his Sikhs abducted a Muslim girl just like Moguls always abducted Hindu women after victory. When Guruji learned about this misdeed of his men, he not only admonished them but asked them to bring back the girl with dignity. He then prohibited the relation with women other then married wives. For a Sikh relation with Turk’s women was prohibited. Guruji wanted dynamic personality in his Sikhs so the care was taken that his Sikhs have simple but clean image at the same time they should be so fearless and brave and ready to lay their lives for a good cause. Since the Emperor had prohibited the good music, poetry and any discussions in his Durbar all the famous poets and musicians started assembling at Poanta Sahib when they heard Guruji’s love for poetry and his fearless assembly despite the prohibition orders. There were 52 poets in his Durbar and Guruji inspired them to write poetry in Bir-ras that means poetry in heroic form written and rendered. In his evening durbar when all the Sangat assembled the heroic poetry was sung by himself and his poets. This form of education thus infused that vigor and vitality required awakening a spirit to fight any odds and any wars. Another tradition of beating drums was prohibited by the Emperor Aurangzeb that Guruji started again by beating drums he called Ranjit Nagara, initially he did that to go for hunting and later it was done whenever he left his abode. The beating of ranjit nagara where filled his men with a brave spirit caused jealousy in the hill chieftains and mogul subedars.

Guru ji wanted to ready a force of men who would not only fight for their own rights but that of their countrymen and always remaining under one banner united and firm. Never running away from battle whatever the odds and ready to lay their lives. His men will get martyred even if cut limb by limb but not leave the battle field. There was no synonym for such men in Hindu world because the society was divided and the fighter class kshtriyas were themselves so divided and full of hatred could not make unity of any kind. Muslim had no synonym for such force all they had was the word ‘millat’ but that was associated with terrorism because the rulers used it for tyrannical purpose to inflict terror and to create fear in people. Guru ji wanted a force that would not forget the existence of the Almighty and at the same time united to fight to save human rights. The concept that he conceived to make such brave people from ordinary folk irrespective of caste and class has terminated his search and he decided to create ‘Khalsa’. He called it appropriately”Whaheguruji ka Khalsa”. Creation of Khalsa would ever remain a unique feature in world history because no other religion has been created and where people stood in ques to get baptized for days. Most religion were forced upon people by concise or by incentives or force.