Is The Dumalla Getting Too Common?

[Gurooo]

Just want to get the sangats views here.

Whenever daas sees a dumalla wale singh I get proud and happy. And the automatic reaction is he reads bani, he is a gursikh, follows rehat etc...

But on Facebook i have seen some singhs wearing a dumalla and writing dirty comments on girl’s pictures and posting music videos. Now this is the last this i would imagine from somebody wearing a dumalla.

So are we losing the value of the dumalla? Is it just becoming a fashion statement for everybody to tie one?

Im not complaining that people should stop wearing a dumalla, it’s just the type of people wearing dumalleh.

daas wants people to tie a dumalla, but there should be some guidlines.:\

[Guroo Guroo Jaap]

Yes definitely, totally agree.

Even bibia have the same problem. So many Singhs and Singhnia who wear the dhumalla and look very Chardi kala but after you get to know them and their words/actions it is easy to tell it is nowhere near the standard of a Gursikh.

[Paneer Monster]

fareedaa kaalay maiday kaprhay kaalaa maidaa vays.

Fareed, my clothes are black, and my outfit is black.

gunhee bhari-aa mai firaa lok kahai darvays. ||61||

I wander around full of sins, and yet people call me a dervish - a holy man. ||61||

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fareedhaa jae thoo akal latheef kaalae likh n laekh ||

Fareed, if you have a keen understanding, then do not write black marks against anyone else.

aapanarrae gireevaan mehi sir nanaeeyaan kar dhaekh ||6||

Look underneath your own collar instead. ||6||

[SarabhaPanjab]

As above post, yes nindhiya is wrong.

But I do feel the approach needs to be reviewed, at the end of the day, its our own brothers and sisters. We are not judging anyone, its love for the bana and what it represents.

If we push the external attire before the youth is ready internally then can easily cause damage to the whole koum when they go through their rebellious stage.

same with Hijab, now you see it as a fashion statement, ironically whilst wearing the most inappropriate clothes?

The concerns are real, if we push the Bana too soon, before the youth is ready.. we'll start seeing Dumulla Bana wearing alcoholics?

As with the OP.. guidelines.. but how? Amritdhari only? permission by 5 Pyaare?

[innergear]

@Desi pug all da way! of

[Jaggaa]

The dastaar is just an external experience and the respect and honour it once had isn't there anymore. It's all what's inside. How could you for a moment think that people especially todays youth who wear tall dastaara have an ounce of rehit/maryada inside them?

Dastar doesn't automatically = Gursikhi Jeevan i'm afraid.

Not judging either really, at the end of the day only Guru Sahib knows who are the ones with KHOKHLEY hearts and those with Pyaar. Shouldn't really look at how others with Dastaars act rarther have the thinking that "okay, i'm wearing my Gurus dastaar and I won't go to a place or do an action my Guru himself would not."

[VanHelsingh]

Best thing to do is keep your own house in order. This constant passing judgement on others is futile.

[Beginner]

Best thing to do is keep your own house in order. This constant passing judgement on others is futile.

Well is it really in justified judgement when they're doing something bad like the op said? We're just saying their actions are wrong.

[VanHelsingh]

Well is it really in justified judgement when they're doing something bad like the op said? We're just saying their actions are wrong.

Unless you're going to walk over to the person in question and say "I think you shouldn't dishonour the dumalla" there is nothing you can do to stop that particular person from doing what they're doing.

Yes, we can talk about it and discuss the issue until we're blue in the face but apart from that nothing is going to happen.

[Guru_Da_Chella]

But on Facebook i have seen some singhs wearing a dumalla and writing dirty comments on girl’s pictures and posting music videos. Now this is the last this i would imagine from somebody wearing a dumalla.

So are we losing the value of the dumalla? Is it just becoming a fashion statement for everybody to tie one?

Im not complaining that people should stop wearing a dumalla, it’s just the type of people wearing dumalleh.

daas wants people to tie a dumalla, but there should be some guidlines.:\

Facebook has fake people, and also some people don't treat it seriously and think its some kind of joke. But they will regret this was employers and etc also check internet.

Also dumalla and bana is being used more and more outside the fauj of khalsa since during the British Raaj, so obviously those not following kshatri/warrior dharam (as laid out by Guru Gobind Singh) will be dressed in these more and more. In kaliyuga this will happen more and more!