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The translator is Harjinder Singh Kanwal. I have his book at home and was reading it a few years ago and noticed many mistranslations done. Here I have listed a few with my own translation in the brackets. ਸਕਲ ਜਗਤ ਮੋ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਪੰਥ ਗਾਜੇ।। ਜਗੈ ਧਰਮ ਹਿੰਦੁਕ ਤੁਰਕ ਦੁੰਦ ਭਾਜੇ।। (Through out the world the Khalsa Panth will be prominent. Within this world the Dharm of the Hindus and Turks will take flight.) The translater has translated ਜਗੈ to mean ਜਾਗਣਾ when it should mean ਜੱਗ ਵਿੱਚ। To support the flow and meaning of this pangti other verses should also be looked at which supports this meaning. ਦਹੂੰ ਪੰਥ ਮੈਂ ਕਪਟ ਵਿੱਦਯਾ ਚਲਾਨੀ।। ਬਹੁੜ ਤੀਸਰ ਪੰਥ ਕੀਜੈ ਪਰਧਾਨੀ।। (The vidhya of both the Panths(of Hindus and Muslims) is corrupted. Elevate the teesr Panth(over the other two Panths).) ਮੜੀ ਗੋਰ ਦੇਵਲ ਮਸੀਤਾਂ ਗਿਰਾਯੰ।। ਤੁਹੀ ਏਕ ਅਕਾਲ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਜਪਾਯੰ।। (Demolish the graves, mandhirs and mosques. Make me meditate on the One Akal, Har Har.) The translator maybe doesn't want to include Hindus so instead of translating ਦੇਵਲ as Mandirs he translates it as monastery in order to disassociate that word from Hindu place of worship. ਮਿਟਹਿ ਬੇਦ ਸਲਾਵਤ ਅਠਾਰਹਿ ਪੁਰਾਨਾ।। ਮਿਟੈ ਬਾਂਗ ਸਲਾਵਤ ਸੁਨੰਤ ਕੁਰਾਨਾ।। (Eradicate the Vedas and eighteen Puranas. Eradicate the Azaan(ਬਾਂਗ), Namaaz, circumcision(ਸੁਨੰਤ) and Quran.)

A sad reality of over farming. Knocking down trees to create yet more farms by money greedy land owners. Who want to deplete all the natural resources to fill their pockets and destroy nature and environment. Mostly people of a certain farming community then ..

The difference is that in the case of Islam, the religion itself is bad, but there are some people who are good despite that. In Sikhism, the religion itself is good, but some people in it are bad. Right. Set free to rape the women of people you vanquished, to levy jizya on non-Muslims until they feel humiliated (quote for the Koran). It means "submission". Submission to Holy God would be one thing, but submission to a religion that encourages violence towards non-Muslims is a bad thing.

^^ Are you on something?

If you treat sikhi like an ethnicity/race/nationality then it will inevitably be surrounded and over run very easily in todays times. The solution has always been to spread sikhi by parchar convert those who want to convert you. If your religion and ideology is superior than that of atheism, islam or christianity it will win through but if our lazy a$$ sikhs who want to live comfortably with "senu key" attitude, dont care about their fellow Sikhs and ultimately dont want to put in that work dont want to convert non-believers dont want to spread the deen and want to get over run therefore the choice is theirs. We cant win in the numbers demographics game in the west or outside of indian punjab because the root cause which is lack of parchar, it's the key real problem. Even if you had a good number of Sikhs you will still be over run in any disagreement or conflict because their numbers are many times greater and like i said sikhi is not a genetic thing its an ideology a spiritual path that is ment to be spread. If we take afghan Sikhs in afghanistan as an example these unfortunate souls are are getting killed for free with no help from anyone including our own weak global sikh kaum. They have no power no influence so are easily victimsed by evil minded sunni muslims. Whereas they either could have gone all out and tried to convert local muslims to become secret Sikhs (like an underground movement) or could have done revenge attacks on anti-sikh sunni salafi extremist people long time ago as they dont have not much to lose any more. in 1980s they had good numbers to form self defense militant groups their mistake was relying on the good nature of afghans to safeguard their lives and livelihoods. Doing nothing has led to the inevitable when islam is concerned sooner or later when the muslim mafia extremists muscle in pushing weak peaceful friendlier muslims to the sidelines and take charge to force non-muslims to either pay the extortionate protection racquet jizya tax, or convert to their brand of islam or face death.

I wonder if the ganges look like a river now and not sewage lol