Something a Christian told a Sikh...

I received an email from Bhaji Mehtab Singh, which I felt like sharing with everyone. The article is of what a Christian pastor said to a Sikh gentleman in London that was published by the Sikh Missionary College Ludhiana. It's a strong email, which some may think is difficult to read. It presents a painful reality, however it also reflects the glory of Sikhi.

O Sikhs ! do what ever you like, your Guru shall never feel happy with you. I have read your history. I have also read translation of your Gurbani what ever I could lay my hands on. I have read much about your religion; as much as you perhaps have not yourself. l am telling you the truth, we spread our religion in the entire world on the strength of one Jesus Christ having been put on the cross. But your history is replete with thousands Christs. Which other religion of the world can claim to have its leaders martyred through torture of being boiled in hot water? Or made to sit on hot plates? Which lover of a religion had his joints cut one by one, and even sawed into two? The followers of which religion had raised their voice and arms to fight injustice, tyranny and oppression by forming small bands of fighters with virtually coffin on their heads? Is there any religion in the world whose leader had his two young ones burried alive in the walls?

What a God’s wrath! Only five hundred years old history and that too written in blood ! And imagine when Gurbani professes love and service of humanity and fellow beings, you sing the songs of love and do not shirk raising arms against cruelty and oppression. What a strange religion it is that to establish justice you don’t even hesitate to lay down your life. You have hidden such an unparalleled and not to be found history in just 20 million hearts. Perhaps even less because I am sure the modern educated Sikhs do not even narrate these episodes to their children. And less informed rural elders may be inadvertently adding falsehood in it. The chasm between belief and blind faith is very wide.

O friend, belief demands a ray of knowledge. Outside knowledge is only blind faith, doubts and superstitions and it keeps getting adulterated. What have you done to check and arrest it ? We have distributed millions of copies of Bible free of cost or have charged very nominal cost. I have heard that SGPC, the governing and administrative body of your Gurudawaras has annual income running into many millions. You should use some money to translate Gurbani in various languages and distribute it. Translate your Sikh history in many languages and distribute its copies free to the world for others to know and realise what you are. Haven’t we printed Bible in all Indian languages including Punjabi ? I have heard that you people have not even reached your Sikh history in every house of your community. How ungrateful are you towads your Gurus and your martyrs ! An ungrateful person has no place other than hell. All you Sikhs will go to hell. O wretched people ! I worry that you will even make hell over crowded.

Source: Sikh Missionary College (Ludhiana)