Re: Was Guru Nanak a Prophet of God?
- From: "Torpedo" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:22:16 +1100
....unlike the pedo Prophet Mohamed.
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> Was Guru Nanak a Prophet of God?
>
> Guru Nanak started his mission at a time when both Hinduism and Islam as
> practiced in the Indian subcontinent had become distorted and degraded.
All
> kinds of corruption had become rampant in society and men of vision were
> worried. They sought to cure the society of the rot that had set in.
Rather
> than address the socio-political problems, the reformers of the day tried
to
> initiate a spiritual movement that would turn people towards God. They
> believed that this was the way to cure the ills of the society.
>
> Guru Nanak was the most important of these reformers. He was born to a
> simple Hindu family. From an early age, he made friends with both Hindus
and
> Muslims and acquired a good knowledge of Hinduism and Islam. There is a
> story of how he disappeared for three days and came back with
enlightenment.
> It is reported that since then, he was no longer the same person he had
> been.
>
> Thereafter, Guru Nanak undertook long journeys with a Muslim companion as
> part of a spiritual mission. On his fourth great journey, he dressed in
the
> blue garb of a Muslim pilgrim and traveled to Makkah. When Nanak returned
> home to Punjab after having spent a lifetime of traveling abroad and
setting
> up missions, people came from far and near to hear his hymns and
preaching.
> After Nanak's death in September 1539, his Hindu followers thought him to
be
> a Hindu and his Muslim followers thought him to be a Muslim. It was his
> later disciples who gave shape to a new religion, of which Nanak is
> considered the First Guru.
>
> Qualities of a Prophet of God
>
> No one can become a prophet of God by his own choosing or effort; Allah
has
> to choose him to be His prophet. And Allah chooses only such persons who
> have all the qualities necessary for that role, and He does so at the
> appropriate time in history, and then He protects His prophets from
falling
> into the kind of errors that do not suit a prophet.
>
> The first duty that a prophet of God does is to tell his people that he
has
> been appointed a prophet by God to invite people to His way. Thus, a
genuine
> prophet claims to be a prophet of God, though this claim in itself is not
> enough. But first and foremost, a prophet has to claim himself to be a
> prophet of God. The people often question this claim and threaten him to
> give up his claim. They may even offer him all kinds of temptations that
> ordinary humans would fall for. But the genuine prophets ignore these and
go
> forward with their God-given mission.
>
> So, the first question you need to ask your Sikh friend is: Did Nanak
really
> claim to be a prophet chosen by God to lead people out of darkness into
> light?
>
> If the answer is "no," tell him that this proves that prophethood was
> conferred on him by his zealous followers and it is meaningless to
continue
> to argue that Nanak was a prophet.
>
> If the answer is "yes," the second question is: Did Nanak approve of the
> roles of earlier prophets of God, especially the prophet who came just
> before him, Muhammad (peace be on him)?
>
> If he says "yes," ask him then how one can reconcile the fact that
Muhammad
> was the Last Prophet of God and the claim that Nanak was a prophet after
the
> Last Prophet.
>
> The third question is whether all the Sikhs believe that their holy book,
> called the Adi Granth, was revealed to Nanak by God. If they say "yes,"
ask
> them whether there is any statement to that effect in the book itself and
> whether Nanak said that the Adi Granth had been fully revealed to him by
> God. If the answer is in the affirmative, your Sikh friend has to show the
> proof that the above statements are true, from the Adi Granth itself. This
> will not be possible for him to do for the following reasons:
>
> 1. The Adi Granth is a collection of the writings of many Gurus including
> Nanak. It was in 1604-Nanak died in 1539-that Arjan Dev, one of the ten
> Gurus, compiled the hymns of Guru Nanak along with the compositions of
both
> Hindu and Muslim holy men like Jaidev, Surdas, Sheikh Farid and Kabir. The
> compiled book was enshrined by Arjan in the Golden Temple with the name
"Adi
> Granth."
>
> 2. A prophet of God is a model for all his followers in all aspects of
life.
> But in the case of Sikhism, we find that it was not Guru Nanak, but the
> tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, who organized the community of Sikhs into a
> khalsa, "a spiritual brotherhood devoted to purity of thought and action."
> He taught his followers to wear long hair (kesh, denoting saintly
> appearance), underwear (kachha, denoting self-control), an iron bangle
> (kara, denoting purity in acts), a comb (kangha, denoting cleanliness of
> mind and body), and a sword (kirpan, denoting fight for a just cause).
>
> 3. Towards the end of his life, the aged Nanak returned home to Punjab and
> settled down at Kartharpur with his family. People came from far and near
to
> hear his hymns and preaching. After his death, his Hindu followers thought
> him to be a Hindu and his Muslim followers thought him to be a Muslim.
>
> From the foregoing, we understand that Guru Nanak was not a prophet of
God,
> but a religious reformer of his times.
>
>
>
.
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