Patit literally means a former Sikh who has fallen or become disgraced. It is a term which refers to a person who was born into a Sikh family or has been initiated into the Sikh religion, but violates the religion's precepts. The term is sometimes translated as apostate (ie. someone who...
Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru (divinely inspired prophet- teacher) and the founder of the Sikh religion, established the first gurdwara in the early 1490s. The Sikh Gurus established gurdwaras as places where a sangat (congregation) could come together to worship as a community by reciting ...
Sikhism - Guru Granth Sahib, Hymns, Poetry: There are two granths, or volumes, that stand out above all others in the Sikh religion: the Adi Granth (“First Book”)—unquestionably the greater of the two—and the Dasam Granth (“Tenth Book”). The Adi Gr
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Sikhism , Indian religion founded in the late 15th century by Nanak, the first of the Sikh leaders titled Guru.
Those who are formally trained in religion are accorded the honorific mullah or mawlānā. Collectively, the community of Muslim scholars is known as the ʿulamāʾ (“scholars”), but among the practitioners of a more popular sect of Islam (generally associated with Sufism) there are ...
(head of the Sikh religion), in order to correct certain inadequacies in the Lahnda script so that sacred literature might be accurately recorded. However, the script is known to have existed before Angad’s time, and he is now considered the popularizer or standardizer of Gurmukhi rather...