All the Sikh Gurus call themselves "Nanak".
If you look in Guru Granth Sahib Ji, every single Shabad by a Guru
refers to "Nanak" - they never say, "I am Guru Arjan",
They say, I am Nanak.
So as far as we're concerned in Sikhi
the Guruship didn't finish with Guru Nanak Dev ji, Their light carried on
through all of the Gurus.
Guru Nanak Dev ji actually passed on the Guruship whilst He was still alive.
Bhai Lehna, who became Guru Angad Dev ji,
was given the Guru-gaddi, the Guruship, by
Guru Nanak Dev ji themselves
and then He became the Guru
and Guru Nanak Dev ji retired.
We have to look at this transition.
If you look at the story of Guru Angad Dev ji, beauty
how He became Guru,
He will see that He worshipped Guru Nanak Dev ji,
they followed every single word
that Guru Nanak Dev ji said
fully with all Their heart.
If Guru Nanak Dev ji was a Muslim,
how could such a devout worshipper
and follower of Guru Nanak Dev ji,
how would they have taken Sikhi further away from Islam? Doesn't make any sense.
Why did Guru Nanak Dev ji not tell
Bhai Lehna, or Guru Angad Dev ji, this mission
that one day, when we reform Islam,
we're going to go back Islam but they didn't
They took it further away
from both those traditions Islam
and Hinduism
By making a new script, Guru angad Dev ji, invented the Gurmukhi alphabet
and he made a new script for the Sikhs to solidify Sikhi even further
and give it a bit more of an independent from Islam and Hinduism.
We didn't take on the Hindu Sanskrit script and
we didn't take on the Persian
or the Arabic script, Guru ji invented Their own script - something new,
something just for Sikhs alone.
Well, here's an interesting point about Bhai Mardana, Bhai Mardana's sons
actually carry on playing Kirtan
and playing the rabab
for Guru Angad Dev ji, the second Guru
and what we see is
by the fifth Guru's time,
there is a tradition of rababis,
who are also Muslim
essentially from a Muslim family,
born in, and reading the Islamic texts
but they're singing in Harmandir Sahib
and singing Kirtan.
That shows that the message was consistent.
Why His descendants carry on singing
the praises of the Gurus and
singing the Gurbani, were it not exactly consistent with the message of
Guru Nanak Dev ji?
They would have said that no they have changed the message.
It's with the fifth Guru,
when he actually ends up developing
the religion even further and even further,
at this point,
when He's tortured and sacrificed, we can see from the writings of Jehangir,
who is the Mughal emperor at that time,
it was under his orders
that Guru Arjan Dev ji was tortured to death.
At that point, two things are very important:
firstly, Guru Arjan Dev ji, is called a Hindu,
by Jehangir, obviously Jehangir wasn't fully versed in Sikhi,
by far as he was concerned
these guys
were not Muslims -
these Sikhs. And he says,
it be it in his mind to either finish them off or bring them back into Islam.
And that brings me on to the second point,
is that Guru Arjan Dev ji tually offered convert to Islam
and He would be spared but he didn't.
So you can see clearly,
that the mission of Guru Nanak Dev ji
is carried out by His of followers,
the next Gurus, Guru Angad Dev ji,
Guru Amar Das ji, Guru Ram Das ji, and Guru Arjan Sahib ji, and They are clearly
not seen as Sikhs by the ruling forces,
so how could they be Muslim?
The funny thing is if
Guru Nanak Dev ji claimed he was a Muslim, and He claimed He was a reformed of Islam,
people would have tried to kill Him
because what he taught
was very far away from Islam.
Guru Nanak Dev ji never claimed to be Muslim, which is why is carried on.
They don't actually want us to follow Guru Nanak Dev ji
in the way that He taught,
what they say is 'Islam'.
They want us to leave Guru Nanak Dev ji
and follow Islam.
You can't say one thing and then say something else,
you trying to claim the legitimacy
of Guru Nanak Dev ji by saying that Sikhs believe in Guru Nanak Dev ji, therefore
if He was Muslim, they'll become Muslim
but at the same time as you're saying that he's
a Muslim
you're criticizing everything that He taught.
and saying don't follow what He taught, if you believe in Him,
He was a Muslim, follow Islam.
You can't have it both ways.
Either you follow Him because He is
so true and so perfect
and therefore follow Sikhi or follow Islam.
For example, you got two religions,
one is Blackberry and one is iPhone
Blackberries came first
so let's say that Islam is like a Blackberry
very established,
loved by lots of people
before Guru Nanak Dev ji came around.
Guru Nanak Dev ji comes around like Apple
and says, you know what,
here's an iPhone, let's say a very different idea from the Blackberry because it's got apps on it
and has a Dasam Duar to connect to the Creator.
And the Blackberry is a business phone
this is not,
this is something different.
The people who are arguing about Islam an Sikhi,
what they're trying to say ,
you know what?
An iPhone's a phone, we're a phone
actually you should become a phone
like we have -
that doesn't make any sense.
People followed this because they like this
to leave them to follow this.
Don't try to say,
"we are what you, are but change who you are".
The argument is flawed from the very beginning.
In summary,
what we've looked at now is
the life of Guru Nanak Dev ji and how They lived, that they didn't ever take on Islam,
They didn't actually do the Hajj.
Also, we looked at the philosophy of Guru Nanak Dev ji
and how what they preached, what actually very different to Islam peaches and finally
we He passed on the Guruship
to the second Guru, Guru Angad Dev ji, he did not pass on any secret code to go and
carry on with Islam. It was very much
that carry on developing this religion and actually what you see is that everyone
of the Gurus after that
ends up building upon Guru Nanak Dev ji's message in a very consistent manner to
develop a religion which, a) doesn't believe in ,
which is a key part of Islam
and also, b)
does not ever
try to become dependent upon the other two faith - we build everything from scratch.
We have a own towns,
our own Script
and own holidays,
and finally we have our own temples
and our own Throne.
Sikhi is trying to become independent from these two
previous traditions.
Anybody having watched these videos should be left under doubt whatsoever
that the initial argument stands - that Guru Nanak Dev ji was never a Muslim
and never practised as a Muslim.
And therefore,
should pretty much end this argument here.
Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh!