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This is a purely hypothetical question

Imagine a situation where a Sikh family living in a Western country decides to send their nine year old son (after he attempted to cut his hair due to bullying) to attend a Sikh school in the Punjab while living with relatives who are very religious. Now one of his best friends of the same age (a non-Sikh Gora with short hair) who always wanted to see India and offered to go with him and his request was granted. Do you think the religious relatives of the Sikh boy living in the Punjab would allow the non-Sikh boy cut his hair while living with them?

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On 11/16/2018 at 3:37 AM, Guest StarWarsFan said:

This is a purely hypothetical question

Imagine a situation where a Sikh family living in a Western country decides to send their nine year old son (after he attempted to cut his hair due to bullying) to attend a Sikh school in the Punjab while living with relatives who are very religious. Now one of his best friends of the same age (a non-Sikh Gora with short hair) who always wanted to see India and offered to go with him and his request was granted. Do you think the religious relatives of the Sikh boy living in the Punjab would allow the non-Sikh boy cut his hair while living with them?

seems like punishment for the young lad instead of dialogue and finding sangat and support for him here, problem is if you do this he will be totally broken internally from his parents and may never feel love for sikhi . The best thing to do is talk to him and show him that he is loved , meanwhile deal with the bullying  in school , put the parent governers and Head on notice that they are failing to safeguard your child.  As for the other lad , he is not sikh  and it seems strange that his parents do not care about where he is going and for how long ...I would be cautious that it is not a poison chalice as they may complain later that you have kidnapped their son. The sikh family have not right to stop the other child exercising his faith or habits of dress and this may be counterproductive if the sikh lad sees that ....A lot of pitfalls to avoid

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15 minutes ago, jkvlondon said:

seems like punishment for the young lad instead of dialogue and finding sangat and support for him here, problem is if you do this he will be totally broken internally from his parents and may never feel love for sikhi . The best thing to do is talk to him and show him that he is loved , meanwhile deal with the bullying  in school , put the parent governers and Head on notice that they are failing to safeguard your child.  As for the other lad , he is not sikh  and it seems strange that his parents do not care about where he is going and for how long ...I would be cautious that it is not a poison chalice as they may complain later that you have kidnapped their son. The sikh family have not right to stop the other child exercising his faith or habits of dress and this may be counterproductive if the sikh lad sees that ....A lot of pitfalls to avoid

disagree, some people dont know whats best for them. he is young and still malleable.

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On 11/16/2018 at 8:07 AM, Guest StarWarsFan said:

This is a purely hypothetical question

Imagine a situation where a Sikh family living in a Western country decides to send their nine year old son (after he attempted to cut his hair due to bullying) to attend a Sikh school in the Punjab while living with relatives who are very religious. Now one of his best friends of the same age (a non-Sikh Gora with short hair) who always wanted to see India and offered to go with him and his request was granted. Do you think the religious relatives of the Sikh boy living in the Punjab would allow the non-Sikh boy cut his hair while living with them?

I Think just give that child his daily dosage of sikhi, GURBANI and let him decide when he wants to walk the path of sikhi.

After all, you cant FORCE sikhi to anyone.

 

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