Be Nam-e Khodavand-e Restakhiz
Asalamu Alaik Ya Hazrati Nanak Shah shams-e-darvishan
Someone here found my post on www.shiachat.com and posted the link. ÃŽ am writing this to confirm that I have indeed reverted back to Shi'ism. I say reverted because according to Islam we are all born Muslims but society and culture diverts us from our true faith.
Most of those who have replied to that thread have indulged in much back biting but trust me I won't stoop to the level of Bikramjit Singh and his love for Sunni-Wahabi lies or Mehtab Singh and his childish hukamnamah posts or his obsession with my circumcision.
I do indeed consider Baba Nanak to have been a Sufi darvish who founded a brotherhood where Muslims and monotheist Hindus joined in. As such I still consider him as my pir. Muslims like me have existed since the very birth of the Sikh tradition. I have to admit that pronouncing my shahada enabled me to rediscover the beauty of gurbani. The eight or so years I have spent in the Panjabi Sikh community have indeed had a very negative consequence on my love for gurbani. I won't go on about what I think of large sections of the Panjabi Sikh community. Let's just say that I couldn't reconciliate the lofty teachings of the Gurus with the sheer mediocrity, ignorance, racism, superstition and brutality that I found in that community. Of course all communities have problems but let's just say that there is a paradox in combining such horrible people with such pure teachings as those of the Gurus. I consider modern Sikhism to be a living joke and a betrayal of the Gurus. I do also consider all the anti-Muslim elements in the rahit to be inovations introduced mainly by Jatts after Guru Gobind Singh's dissapearance in 1708. The way this community interprets halal and haram and its sheer hatred of Islam are just laughable.
I could go on and on and on about negative things but I am not up to that mood.
The truth is that all my experiences with Vahiguru simran have been visions of Ahl ul Bayt (as). I think that after some time I had to accept the calling. The experiences I have had in Iranian Shi'a Sufi circles can in no way be compared to what I experienced in the Sikh community.
Rest assured I don't wish to convert any of you. Not only because Panjabis make absolutely crazy and superstitious Shi'as but also because Baba Nanak Shah gave his gaddi to a Durga bhagat, Guru Angad thus demonstrating that brotherhood is found in accepting the Other in his otherness.
I can't say that I have experienced real brotherhood among Panjabi Sikhs. They are far too attached to this nazi notion of cast be it Neo-sikhs or Sanatanis. At least Sanatanis are clear and honest about their sheer racism and their lack of morals going to to the level of justifying raping Muslim women with the help of a boar's tusk to circumvent Musli yudh. I even had my gurubhai call me a fascist.Then again he's a better Nirmala like and I am happy like to have introduced him to Baba Sher Singh...like.
My academic work will now turn to more Iranian and Kurdish subjects. I think in all fairness that I had my share of Panjabism and have decided to spend less time on it for understandable reasons.
As for my appearance I intended to keep the three mudre as they derive from Iranian chivalry traditions as found in the Futuwwah Nameh ye Sultani of Kashifi and the Rasail e Javanmardan edited by Henry Corbin.
So chill out I am not here to mislead or convert anyone, I have no time to waste on that community.
Khoda Hafez Shoma
Please close the thread after this.
