Core tenet of Sikhism
Work honestly, and share what you earn.
Kirat karo, vand chhako — labor and generosity as worship.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Kirat karo, vand chhako: earn by honest labor, share what is earned. Sikhism refused the renunciant's exit — the householder's working life is the arena of holiness, and the test of remembrance is whether it survives the market, the field, and the payroll.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
One who eats what they have earned and gives something from their own hands — that one, says Nanak, knows the true way.
Guru Granth Sahib 1245
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The alms round.
Buddhism · rite
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Repairing the world is human work.
Judaism
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The tithe.
Christianity · precept
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The neighbour.
Islam · precept
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Charity is doing your job well.
The New Church (Swedenborgianism) · precept
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Soup, soap and salvation — in that order, and the order is the doctrine.
The Salvation Army
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