Story of Sikhism
The founding of the Khalsa.
Vaisakhi 1699: five volunteers offer their heads; a community of the committed is born.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The founding of the Khalsa in 1699 gave the community a uniform, a code, and new names: Singh (lion) for men and Kaur (princess) for women, which erased the caste surnames everyone had arrived with. Kaur is worth pausing on — it gave women a name of their own rather than a father's or husband's, at a time and place where that was unusual. The five who volunteered came from different castes and regions, and Sikh tradition foregrounds that composition deliberately.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The fire, and then the exile.
Hinduism
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The pegs in his ears.
Jainism
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The Shoah broke something, and no answer has held.
Judaism · core tenet
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The cross did something — and no council ever said what.
Christianity · core tenet
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H
Husayn — killed at Karbala.
Islam · figure
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Karbala is the wound that teaches.
Shia Islam · core tenet
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