Kanwal Speaks - September 24, 2015 at 08:18PM

Both of the orders or the Hukamnamas (whatever they call it) by the Five Head Ministers (yes this is their real post as per the Gurdwara Act, 1925) or their representatives sitting at the Akal Takhat Gurudwara (Yes this is its real status again as per the Act) in the matter of Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa are nothing but in all the manners are the Fatwas or religious diktats, and thus both are illegal as per the recent judgement of the Supreme Court dealing with an issue alike ! Sikhs are rather themselves making (these so said) Hukamnamas, of their religious domain, the very business of interest of the Courts, with such fundamentally flawed and violative diktats trying to encroach upon the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people, in general, ensured by the Constitution and by the International Charter of Human Rights declared by the United Nations in 1948. Historically and Ideologically, for Sikhs there is only one type of Hukamnama and that is to be taken from hymns of Guru Granth Sahib for spiritual growth and enlightenment, and rest all on the name of maryada (religious code of conduct) is not at all maryada but only the recent political interests conquering the faith, with an addition that for socio-political issues, Sikhs historically had a maryada of Gurmata (Collective Decision in light of Sikh Principles enshrined in Guru Granth Sahib) by Sarbat Khalsa (General Congregation of all Sikhs), and this priestly FATWA like Hukamnama thing of these days is more a politics than the maryada in any manner. Adding more to it, especially for the ones who justfy these Fatwas or religious diktats and press for their superiority over the modern day Courts, even in the matters which are otherwise to be decided by the applicable laws of land, just by terming them predated to mordren courts, that saying only a predated thing the rightful just because it is older would otherwise create a big question, rather doubt, on the whole Sikhism as all of the Paganic, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian or Islamic practices predate the Sikhi in all manners !!
by अहं सत्य

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