Talk:Why I wear a Turban?

Hari ji, I can only guess that you are the author of the piece based on your name being the first in the history. But such a guess is often foolish as many pages have a 'history' well before the first poster.

In the lines:

When the Guru's son, young Gobind Rai, soon to be Guru Gobind Rai, found out about this tragic occurrence, he asked Bhai Jaita a witness to the event: "Wasn't there any Sikh in the crowd" – meaning wasn't there any brave people in the crowd who would have stopped such a tragedy from taking place. The answer that was received led to the Guru's gift of the dastaar as part of the 5 Kakkars which would change the outward appearance of Sikhs so that they would be sure to stand out in any crowd.

Bhai Jaita replied, "Guru Ji, many Sikhs must have been there in the crowd, but they could not be recognised." You see, in 1675, the Sikhs were not required to wear a turban. All the Sikh Gurus had worn turbans but not all of their followers Sikhs did.

This implies that there were Sikhs in the crowd, and that if they had only had turbans on then someone, a non Sikh?, could have shouted out to them, hey I see you are a Sikh go do something about this. The Sikhs who were there knew who they were, they didn't need anyone to point them out.

The fact is that most likely there were many Sikhs in the crowd - having a turban would have made no difference. They did not do /could not do anything. Bravery and fighting were not things that they had been trained in. And even if there were a few brave individual Sikhs they could not have stopped the execution as God/Waheguru was involved in this, quoting words attributed to the Guru, 'a brave man must come forward as the Guru said to his young son and sacrifice his life'.

Some writers on these pages have lamented and discounted the contributions of the earlier Gurus with comments such as "they only gave us beads, but Guru Gobind Singh turned us into hawks." The Hawks that the Khalsa became are Hawks that he created by his training and will.

Is someone putting there words into the mouth of the young Guru Gobind Rai when he has the Guru telling Bhai Jetha, I will invent the Khalsa-- for if he had said that that day there would have been no surprise that day when men were challenged to 'feed' the Guru's hungry sword--for they would already have been wainting in anticipation knowing of the Khalsa and their becoming Sant-soldiers.

And on Bhai Jetha, who was at the time a savenger a Mazhabi, some stories say he was a Sikh already others say he was leaning that way. He was given a special name that day on which he returned the Guru's head to his family. Yet his Mazhabi page here has a non-Sikh warning even though he died fighting at Chamkaur. Allenwalla 15:49, 19 May 2008 (UTC)