Can Sikhs Straighten Their Hair?

[Guest Confused]

Gurfatehji,

I am keshadhari but I am not amritdhari. I would like to know if we, Sikhs, can straighten our hair. As I know, we cannot cut our hair or dye it. What about straightening it? Is it allowed? If no, please provide a reference or evidence so that I can understand more. Thank you in advance.

[Guest straightmunda]

if it is for some medical reason or for health.

some people get real bad dry split ends on curly hair that is hard to treat

then they straighten and treat to make them strong

i had to do it for mine and when checked was told yeh as long as you not doing it for show-fashion-kaam-attract kuriya-etc-etc

[Guest SinghAbb]

We cannot straighten our hair because it is disrespectful to it. We are to treat our hair as a form of the Guru. Straightening is like burning our Guru. Otherwise, washing hair, putting oil on it and combing it are things that are necessary to do. Straightening isn't. If you go to any akj website, you'll find lots of proof for how every Sikh should tie a dastar. Now if we tie a dastar, it doesn't matter how our hair looks. So since straightening hair is disrespectful to it and is not necessary, Sikhs are not allowed to.

[S4NGH]

"Thou shalt straighten thy hair."

"Thou shalt useth man made devices on thy hair."

"Thou shalt useth their friggin head when it comes to such trivial shiz". JEZUS

[Koi]

"Thou shalt straighten thy hair."

"Thou shalt useth man made devices on thy hair."

"Thou shalt useth their friggin head when it comes to such trivial shiz". JEZUS

Foshizal!

[jkvlondon]

Gurfatehji,

I am keshadhari but I am not amritdhari. I would like to know if we, Sikhs, can straighten our hair. As I know, we cannot cut our hair or dye it. What about straightening it? Is it allowed? If no, please provide a reference or evidence so that I can understand more. Thank you in advance.

to straighten your hair permanently you need to destroy the strength of the protein bonds in it , so this is willfully harming your kesh ...I think Guru ji would not be down with that... however if you are using gels , sprays with hot air for a temporary straightening the hair is not harmed in the same way so I think that would be preferable to the other method however best would be to accept your kesh as is.

[Guest Jacfsing2]

to straighten your hair permanently you need to destroy the strength of the protein bonds in it , so this is willfully harming your kesh ...I think Guru ji would not be down with that... however if you are using gels , sprays with hot air for a temporary straightening the hair is not harmed in the same way so I think that would be preferable to the other method however best would be to accept your kesh as is.

He or she could ask because it may hurts to comb curly hair or wavy hair, (family members with curly hair), I think if you respectfully do it, it shouldn't be a problem

"Thou shalt straighten thy hair."

"Thou shalt useth man made devices on thy hair."

"Thou shalt useth their friggin head when it comes to such trivial shiz". JEZUS

wrong religion, but I do like the 3rd line.

[jkvlondon]

Veer ji,

there are plenty of Amritdhari African descent sikhs which have coped with kesh question , use the right oils and conditioning products and it will be OK

[singh598]

Taksal and Nihang Singh (Taksal is actually Nihang Jatha) Maryada is absolutely NO adulteration of Kesh that includes dying hair, perming hair, straightening, plucking, lazer treatment and anything else out there

Infact kesh are very pyareh to Guru Ji

[jkvlondon]

Taksal and Nihang Singh (Taksal is actually Nihang Jatha) Maryada is absolutely NO adulteration of Kesh that includes dying hair, perming hair, straightening, plucking, lazer treatment and anything else out there

Infact kesh are very pyareh to Guru Ji

plus you are handicapping your naam japna as it passes through the different stages ...gurmukh rom rom har dhiavey ...you have many lakhs of rom each becomes a jeev which vibrates har nam so your naa, abihaas increases exponentially as you progress...if you damage them then they cannot help you