Hoshiarpur, December 26, 2017: – Hitting out at Congress and SAD for exchanging brickbats on Tenth Guru’s picture, the Sikh Youth of Punjab (SYP) said all available pictures of all Gurus are fake, fictitious and imaginary.
Referring to controversy over Congress government using “morphed” picture of Guru Gobind Singh in its advertisement, Party head Paramjit Singh Mand and spokesperson Harjot Singh said two wrongs can’t make one right. They said both arguments by SAD and counter arguments by Congress in their defence were basically against Sikh principles. They said using and worshiping picture of the Guru was against Gurmat. All available pictures are imaginary and fictional hence, has no religious sanction.
They emphasized that Sikhs should worship Shabad-Guru (Guru’s Bani) and nothing else. “Sikhism prohibits idol-worship that includes pictures, paintings and portraits of Gurus in any form”. “Sikhs need to shun Manmat and follow Gurmat in both letter and spirit”.
Agreeing that portrayal of Sikh Gurus and their family members had been going on in pictorial form for very long now, they said let this be clear to one and all that pictorial portrayal was unwarranted and a deep failure of the community.
To drive their point home, they quoted Sirdar Kapur Singh, professor of Sikhism, in which he mentioned that “When in 1610 some Sikhs asked for the permission of the Sixth Nanak to have a portrait of the Guru prepared, it was politely refused. And to the puzzled Sikhs, Bhai Gurdas, the evangelist, explained that the only portrait of the Guru is the Shabad of the Guru.
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