Someone has started a petition for Allowing Sikh Women to Administer Amrit Sanchar

[singhbj singh]

https://www.change.org/p/jathedar-allowing-sikh-women-to-administer-amrit-sanchar

[Singh1989]

OMG! We're asking outsiders to influence Akaal Takht's decision? Make this NON - SIKH organisation decide for us! SANGAT JIO! Today it's women's rights on initiating tomorrow what decisions will we allow these NON-SIKHS to make for the whole Sikhs!!!

This is not right tbh. Even if one woman offered her head to Maharaja, today it would have been 1 woman n 4 men. EVEN IF 5 WOMEN OFFERED only then today it would have been 100% okay that only women must initiate amrit.

BUT FIVE SINGHS STOOD UP. FIVE MEN! All ten Gurus gave MEN AND WOMEN every right to be in sangat, sit on thabya to do prayers from SGGS! Make Gurudwara decisions EVERY RIGHT AS MEN!

Sangat ji, there is a reason why five men do Amrit sanchaar seva. It's tradition! It's what it started as. OK the most thing peeing me off is WE HAVE TURNED TO A NON SIKH TO MAKE AKAAL TAKHT'S DECISIONS!

[KhoonKaBadlaKhoon]

While I don't really care who gives Amrit or not, where do we stop on trying to keep the tradition identical to the original 5? Why at sex? Why don't we also make sure the 5 have to be from the same areas the original 5 were from? Same profession? Etc

[Guest]

I agree with KhoonKaBlada, I don't think which gender it should come from, as long as the panj pyaare are fully amritdhari, etc.

[singhbj singh]

Personally I neither support nor oppose such a move.

However if the Punj Sahibaan's were women more females would turn up for PESH    :-)

[Guest]

Hey where is @dallysingh101 , @Berserk and other "defenders" of panth ?

omg. Look women trying to get out of kitchen. They will surely spoil the sikh faith with their "special" right demand. I hope I don't live to see the day when it happens.

*sarcasm*

 

[Guest Jacfsing2]

I don't agree with women being in the Punj Pyare, but what use was this petition? The SGPC Maryada lets women be Punj Pyare, and AKJ as well as 3HO have women "Punj Pyare", this was a useless petition that someone probably did as a social experiment, forget Amritdharis, I highly doubt that everyone who signed the petition were even knowledgeable about Sikhi.

[Premi5]

As much as I support equal gender rights, I believe there are supportive quotes from Mahapursh in the past who have explained that only men should be Panj Piare. One day in the future, hopefully, we will move away from being quite so 'politically correct'.

This is not to put women down, but tradition is tradition, and I have yet to hear a Mahapursh say women should be in the Panj Piare

[Jonny101]

Whether or not women should be allowed to administer Amrit is one topic but just take a look at the religiosity of the women behind this petition here

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1514397371955901&id=1152901118105530

[Akalifauj]

On 01/07/2017 at 11:46 AM, singhbj singh said:

https://www.change.org/p/jathedar-allowing-sikh-women-to-administer-amrit-sanchar

Read the petition carefully.  Especially where she quotes Gurbani.  Find the following tuk she quoted from Gurbani on ang 310:

Dhan Dhan so janani jin guru jania mae" (Blessed, blessed is the mother, who gave birth to the Guru)” 

She took out the first two tuks in the line.  This malice action speaks volumes of their true intentions. Giani Gurbachan Singh ji should take the petition and call her to Sri Akal Takht sahib to answer for her disrespect toward Gurbani.  This is a very serious offence in according to Guru Sahib giving punishment to his own son.

Full line says the following:

Dnu DMnu ipqw Dnu DMnu kulu Dnu Dnusu jnnI ijin gurU jixAw mwie ]

Blessed, blessed is the father; blessed, blessed is the family; blessed, blessed is the mother, who gave birth to the Guru.