Talk:The marble slabs at Harmandir Sahib

Old temples , including the pyramids of Egypt, have always become the easy supply yard of later civilizations. Cairo is largely built of the fine stone coverings stolen from the pyramids. The Qutub Minar in Delhi is an excellent example of this practice by Muslims. Many of the current buildings of Rome contain portions of old structures. I don't think the beef eating of the Muslims was as much a problem for Sikhs, in the 19th century as was the way in which the beef they ate, had been killed.

This sounds like the stuff that tour guides make up to enrich their spheel. In this case it also serves to slander anyone not of their religion. The fanatics who usually have influence with a newspaper, only if they publish it, are probably not the ones who gave birth to these stories, but i am sure they would certainly use such stories to fan their fires of hate and divisivness.

They are currently having much success with the weapon of divisivness after they succeeded in having the land promised for pilgrim sarais near Amarnath.

I don't know where the Kanals of land in dispute at Amarnanth are located, the news stories always say forest land, but if the land (I've seen the paper work) alloted for (temporary structures only) is anywhere near the cave itself- I don't see what there is to argue about. The land near the cave is nothing but barren, ice covered mountainside most of the year. A source of much needed income throughout Kashmir, the Yatri has been turned into another manufactured, divisive issue aimed at inciting the uneduated and uninformed Muslim cannon fodder, those willing, hoping waiting for martrydom and their alloted 72 Apsaras (my mistake Horis), currently being used to split neighbors apart. That was definitely not the aim of the Sher-e-Panjab.

By the way are there any marble slabs missing from the mentioned mazars?

I have read of the gold-embrodered and jewel studded canopy that was given to Maharaja Ranjit Singh by another Maharaja, which he considered to lavish to keep. He gave it to the Harmandar Sahib, I never knew that he had intended its use in the Temple itself. I know that there is usually a lavish umbrella or canopy kept in Hindu Mandirs, to cover the Murti, when it is carried outside in special processions.

How had he intended its use in the Darbar Sahib? I have read that it was one of the treasures kept in the Akaal Takht, which was along with the Takhat heavily damaged during the shelling in '84. Have any of you seen this canopy; what has happened to it?

Questions from Allenwalla 20:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)