Shaheeda De Sartaj (First Sikh Martyr) Guru Arjan Dev Ji Gurpurab Today

[JSinghnz]

Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji, 1563-1606

Guru Arjan Dev Ji was the fifth Sikh Guru and the first Sikh martyr: he gave up his life for the Sikh people.

Contributions

The Guru laid the foundation of the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar. He also designed the four doors in a Gurdwara, proclaiming that "My faith is for the people of all castes and all creeds from whichever direction they come and to whichever direction they bow."

He also declared that all Sikhs should donate a tenth of their earnings to charity.

The greatest contribution he made to the Sikh faith was to compile all of the past Gurus' writings into one book, now the holy scripture: the Guru Granth Sahib. It was this holy book that made him a martyr.

Martyrdom

Guru Arjan Dev included the compositions of both Hindu and Muslim saints which he considered consistent with the teachings of Sikhism and the Gurus.

In 1606, the Muslim Emperor Jahangir ordered that he be tortured and sentenced to death after he refused to remove all Islamic and Hindu references from the Holy book.

He was made to sit on a burning hot sheet while boiling hot sand was poured over his burnt body. After enduring five days of unrelenting torture Guru Arjan Dev was taken for a bath in the river. As thousands watched he entered the river never to be seen again.

The way in which he died changed the course of Sikhism forever.

[JSinghnz]

[NewtoSikhism]

Japiyo Jin Arjan Dev Guru

Fir Sankat Jon Garabh Na aayoooo

Jab loh nahi maang lilar ude

Tab lo bhramte firte bahu dhayoooo

Kalghor samundra mai budat the

kabhu mitt hai nahi reh pachtayoooo

Tat bheechar yahai mathura

Jag taran ko avtar banayo...

Waheguru ji ka khalsa, waheguru ji ki fateh :respect: :respect:

[Guest]

Waheguru

[navsangeet]

On FB i read about this Incident once again after many years and it brought back all the memories when this had happened and Sikhs had been made proud --

I think it was in 1998 or 1999. In city of Babina (MP, India) , there was a Sikh Armoured Regiment and day was Guru Arjan Dev Ji's Shaheedi Purb.
This Regiment had all the Sikh Rangroots ( new- recruits) in it. Singhs were doing Chabeel-Sewa outside Gurudwara and some Singhs were making Parshade in Langar.

A Hindu Army Officer came and had chabeel and came inside Gurudwara in Langar where Singhs were making Parshade on Tavi ( large Iron plate used to make parshade)

He asked what day is today ? Singhs replied it is Shaheedi Divas of Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj.
Officer asked Who was He ? A Singh explained to him about Maharaj's Shaheedi and how Guruji sat calmly on Burning Hot Iron Plate.
Office said -- IMPOSSIBLE. This cannot happen. How can a human being sit on Hot Plate and stay calm ?
Listening to this -- One Singh who was doing Parshade di Sewa and was reciting Sukhmani Sahib got up and sat on ''Tavi'' on which Parshade were being made.
He sat there on tavi, smiled and said '' Guruji sat like this Officer''.

Hindu officer screamed and said get him down get him down. Singh was taken off the Tavi. His clothes,body parts had been burned but he was smiling.

He said officer, Never doubt Our Guru in front of a Sikh. His spirit still pervades in us.
Our Guru can do anything.

(read the above post on my facebook, not written by me )