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There is a request, submitted by Sikhs, for an audio version of this article to be created. For further information, see WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.

The rationale behind the request is: "Dear Sir, I humbly request that you should make all 'Sikhs' an audio recording because Sikhism is one of the world's major religions, and making it an audio recording will allow the visually impaired to hear about the tenets of their faith and the issues that effect the Sikhs".

Guru nanak religion and classed as a Khatri

is there any evidence that he was born into a Hindu family or that he was a Khatri from what I have seen many people allege this but they don't give any evidence he might of been but this is speculation without the proper evidence the source cited doesn't give itself any evidence for this claim only stating it Dopplegangman (talk) 11:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, the "evidence" for this would largely be from the Janamsakhis, which holds the belief that Nanak was born to a family in the Bedi tribe. In terms of his supposed caste, I believe this is largely stemmed from the fact that the Bedi tribe were members of the Khatri caste, therefore, it is assumed that Nanak too would have been a member of this caste.

However, Nanak famously defied the Hindu rituals and declared castes as a falsehood, so the wording of your question is problematic.

Nanak's faith was Sikhi and he had no caste. AnyBurro9312 (talk) 08:13, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly remove:

Kindly remove the word “baptism”, as Baptism a word for conversion into Christianity. And The “Initiation” done by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Dev Ji was called “Amrit Sanchar” (meaning water of immortality life-cycle rite) or “Khande di Pahul” (meaning Initiation with the double edged sword). 119.252.203.181 (talk) 08:46, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I agree with this recommendation because the accurate term should be "initiation" instead of the more common "baptism".

I've made the necessary changes in the page, but wanted to inquire what the initiation ceremony would be for someone who with cut hair who still accepts Sikhi (Sehajdhari Sikh). Would they also undergo the Amrit Sanchar or Khande di Pahul or would they undergo a different rite?

(This question is open for anyone) AnyBurro9312 (talk) 14:07, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to a pathi(religious scholar) I asked in my gurudwara you cannot go through with it if you do not follow 5 K's. 49.255.90.94 (talk) 22:15, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I meant that if a person had cut hair, and wanted to identify as a Sikh, how would they go about doing so?

The Amrit Sanchar requires the observance of the Panj Kakkars (5Ks), however there do exist Sikhs who identify as such without observing the physical aspects of the faith. They are known as Sehajdhari Sikhs.

So how would a person with cut hair go about identifying as a Sehajdhari Sikh? As far as I know, there exists no canonical pathway to accomplish this, so it would just come down to the person to simply begin identifying themselves as Sikh and they would be a Sehajdhari, on account of their cut hair. AnyBurro9312 (talk) 08:17, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Need fix on Jawaharlal Nehru

The name of Jawaharlal Nehru needs to be fixed to point to the wikipedia webpage about him. I do not remember how to do it. 184.152.110.187 (talk) 14:50, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. RegentsPark (comment) 17:08, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

False copyvio alarm

Earwig points to http://www.sikhs.org/english/eg28.htm as a potential copyvio. This is a false alarm, as the text in question is properly attributed as a quote (although shortening the quotes might do good for the article). Викидим (talk) 20:43, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]