Our hair history..

[S1ngh]

I compiled below writing from sikh-history and many other sikh sites.. so if u see any minstake.. just let me know .. thanks

------------

"Signigicance of Our HAIR"

"All your sins can be pardoned if you become a

Muslim and cut and give me those long hair of yours "

said by Muslim governer to Bhai Taru Singh.

Bhai Taru Singh said, "I shall keep my faith with

these hair and you shall be controlled by my shoes and

with these you will die." The Governor was

beside himself with rage on hearing this. He got Bhai

Taru Singh mounted on rotating wheels of torture and

then from a cobbler got his scalp removed so that hair

may not grow again. After that he got him thrown in a

ditch.

****************************************

Then Sikhs also got the five symbols from Guru Gobind

singh ji, Bhai Nand lal wrote:

"These five letters of K are emblems of Sikhism.

These five are most incumbent, Steel Bangle,

big knife, shorts and a comb; without unshorn

hair the other four are of no significance"

****************************************

Sardar Sukkha Singh Kalsi (d.1752):

Great Sikh warrior "His parents, apprehensive of the government's

wrath, one day cut off his hair as he lay asleep. Sukkha

Singh on waking up felt so disturbed at this sacrilege

that he decided to put an end to his life, andiumped

into a well. He resisted the people'

s effort to pull

him out, until a Sikh who was passing by advised him

that it was sheer cowardice and a sin for a Sikh to

take his own life. Sukkha Singh allowed himself to be

helped out, regrew his kesa and joined the jatha or band

of Sardar Shiam Singh."

****************************************

Zakariya Khan continued to carry out his policy of

repression with redoubled zeal. A Pitiless campaign for a

manhunt was started. Sikhs heads sold for money and

Mughals offered a prize for each head brought to them.

According to Ratan Singh Bhangu, "He who informed where a

Sikh was received 10 rupees, he who killed one

received 50." But Sikhs never cuts their hair, not even

when Muslim put price on their heads.

****************************************

Prior to his release from prison in Lahore, the

well-known Shaheed Bhagat Singh, who was waiting execution

in the same prison, expressed a desire to have Bhai

Sahib's darshan before his death. On being approached,

Bhai Sahib refused to see him saying "...he has

violated the basic tenets of Sikhism by shaving off his

hair and hence I do not want to see him." Bhagat Singh

was quick to express his repentance and also

confessed that he, in fact, was an atheist at heart. He

further told Bhai Sahib that even then, perhaps, he would

have kept the Sikh appearance, but if he had done that

he would have lost the friendship and sympathy of

his Hindu comrades and would not have received so

much publicity in the press. After a two hour meeting

with Bhai Sahib, he became a true Sikh at heart and

later went to the gallows as a true believer in

Sikhism.

****************************************

Zakraya Khan, who made head-hunting a profitable business

by offering a graded scale of rewards: a blanket for

cutting off a Sikh's hair, ten rupees for information of

the whereabouts of a Sikh, fifty rupees for a

Sikh

scalp. Sikhs or withholding information of their

movements was made a capital offence. Zakraya's police

scoured the countryside and brought back hundreds of

Sikhs in chains. They were publicly beheaded at the

nakhas, the horsemarket of Lahore, since then renamed

Sahidganj (place of martyrdom), in memory of the dead.

(After these acts, Turban Sikhs still survive)

****************************************

[simran_kaur]

Good Stuff Virji... ...

You used Great Examples to prove the point

[Jkaur]

wah ji wah .... vicky cool stuffffffffff

[Sarbloh Soulja]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

that was great, very interesting to read. B)