Why Do Sindhis Worship Guru Nanak And Follow Sikh Traditions?
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Excerpt:
On November 26, 2022 I gave a talk on Guru Tegh Bahadurji in Ujjain. On completion of the talk 18-20 armed Nihangs surrounded me. I was told (in Punjabi) that I must stop spreading mithya about the gurus being Hindu and Devi bhakts.
Nearly a month later i.e. on December 18 a group of Nihangs from Punjab barged into a Sindhi home in Indore and objected to moortis of Hindu Deities being worshipped in their mandir alongside the Guru Granth Sahib.
Patthat hatao they said or hand us over, the Guru Granths of all Mandirs and homes. They even submitted a memorandum to the police for Sindhis to either get Guru Granth removed by January 12, 2023 or declare all those places housing them as gurudwaras where Sikh Granthis would worship the Granth. A near similar attempts to control Sindhi Gurudwaras was made in 2020-21.
The Sindhi community could not accept removing Ganesh ji, Sri Ram, Sri Krishna from their mandirs hence decided to do away with the centuries old tradition of following Granth Sahib. Thus with a heavy heart, on January 11 and 12, Sindhis handed over Guru Granths from around 153 of their Mandirs/ Tikana in Indore to Gurudwara Imli Sahib.
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