About Sikhism
- Sikhs worship God in his Nirgun form. The females go by the surname Kaur, which means princess, and the men go by the surname Singh, which means Lion.
- God is viewed by Sikhs as being omnipotent. Sikh philosophy was essentially opposed to idolatry.
- Sikhism refers to God as Waheguru, and asceticism is not encouraged among adherents.
- The Sikhs live their life in service to humanity and to God.
- Sikhism forbids prejudice on the grounds of any caste or religion.
- It should be emphasized that the Guru Granth Sahib also contains the teachings of other Bhakti saints like Farid, Namdev, Surdas, and others are included.
- Guru Nanak Dev built the first Gurudwara in Kartarpur (now in Pakistan).
Sikhism And The Sikh Gurus
The founders of Sikhism, known as the Sikh Gurus, began their work in 1469 and continued for around two and a half centuries. Sikhism’s founder, Guru Nanak, was born in the year 1469. He was followed by nine more gurus till the Guruship was eventually transferred in 1708 by the tenth guru to the revered Guru Granth Sahib, which is currently regarded as the living Guru by Sikh believers. The Sanskrit word Shishya, which means student or pupil, is from where the word Sikh originated. Approximately 24 million Sikhs live in the world today. The majority of them reside in Punjab, an Indian state.
The establishment of the Singh Sabha in 1873 was crucial in the purification of Sikhism. In response to reforms in the gurudwara administration, the British enacted the Sikh Gurudwara Act 1925 to govern gurudwara management. Power politics is a problem for Punjab’s gurudwara administration today. The Sikh community was defined by the Haryana High Court as the persons who adhere to all five tenets of the Sikhism faith.