Sarbat da bhala is the last line of the Ardas and it is doing something specific: the prayer has spent several minutes on Sikh memory and Sikh martyrs, and then it deliberately widens to everyone alive. It is why Sikh relief organisations — Khalsa Aid, United Sikhs, and countless gurdwara kitchens — operate without a religious test, and why langar showed up at the Calais camps, at Ukrainian border crossings, after the Turkish earthquake, and outside Delhi during the farmers' protest. The record is genuinely unusual for a community of this size. It also sits beside an internal life that is far less generous: caste-segregated gurdwaras, savage committee politics, and the treatment of Dalit Sikhs. Sikh writers make this contrast themselves, frequently and bluntly, which is more than most traditions manage about their own flagship virtue.