Sunday, July 11, 2010

RAJNAMA

Spoken by the First Master First,

Nanak went to Mecca; Medina he afterwards visited.
The lord of Mecca and Medina, Kaarun, he made his disciple. When Nanak was about to depart,
Kaarun, the fortunate, thus spoke:
Now thou art about to go, But when wilt thou return?
Then the Guru thus answered:
When I put on my tenth dress I shall be called Gobind Singh; Then shall all Singhs wear their hair;
They shall accept the 'Pahal' of the two-edged Sword Then shall the Khalsa be established;
Then shall men exclaim 'Vaheguru' The four races shall become one and the same;
The five weapons shall be worn by all. In Kalyug they shall array themselves in vestments of blue;
The name of the Khalsa shall be everywhere. In the time of Aurangzeb
The wondrous Khalsa shall arise. Then shall battles be waged, Endless war shall ensue,
And fighting shall follow year after year. They shall place the name of Gobind Singh in their hearts.
When many heads shall be rendered up, The Empire of the Khalsa shall prevail.
First, they shall conquer Punjab; Then other countries shall be theirs;
Hindustan and the North shall be possessed by them; Then the west shall bow to them.
When they enter Khorasan, Kabul and Kandahar shall lie low.
When Iran has been laid prostrate, Arabia shall be conquered and they shall march on to Mecca.
Mecca shall be beheld, And Medina shall be seized.
Mighty shall be the rejoicing, And all shall exclaim 'Vaheguru'.
Unbelievers shall everywhere be destroyed; The holy Khalsa shall be exalted.
Beasts and Birds shall tremble in the presence of the Lord.
Men and Women shall everywhere call on God. The Earth, the Oceans and the Heavens shall call on God.
By calling on the Guru shall men be blessed. Every faith shall become of the Khalsa;
No other religion will remain. 'Vaheguru' shall everywhere be repeated,
And pain and trouble shall depart. In the Kalyug shall the Kingdom be established,
Which Nanak received from the Lord. Worthless, I fall before God;
Nanak, the slave, cannot comprehend the ways of the Lord. Thus replied Nanak to Kaarun's question.
Note the couplets " I shall return to resurrect the Khalsa", "All shall wear vestments of blue", "All Sikhs shall flock under his banner." These statements do not hang well with these sects. Their 'Guru' has not reserected the Khalsa so it follows that any second coming of Guru Gobind Singh Ji is yet to come. All shall wear blue, this is one of the colours of the Khalsa, most sects wear white. All Sikhs shall frock under his banner, most Sikhs reject these sects so it cannot be talking about them.
One boat is preserved at Uchch wherein Guru Nanak and Makhdum of Uchch travelled together to Mecca.
Urdu textbook which contained a poem by Iqbal in which he had paid rich tribute to him:.
The land where, Chishti delivered the message of truth.
The land where Nanak sang the song of God's oneness,
The land where the Tatars made their home,
The land which lured the Arabs from Arabia,
That land is my home, that is my home.

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