Sikhs are one great people. Their early gurus were so kind they accepted death by torture at the hands of Muslim fanatics for noble causes. Fifth Guru Arjan Dev ji was roasted alive to death by Jehangir, Akbar's son, to the choice of embracing Islam. He was given an alternative of fine of 2 lakhs, which his followers were ready to pay, but he declined, telling he wanted to give money to poor and needy, but not before coersion.
Guru Teg Bahadur 9th guru and father of Guru Gobind Singh ji was beheaded by Aurangazib where the Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib stands today, when Guru visited him to advice him against forced conversion of Hindus in Kashmir.
Seeing this atrocity Guru Gobind ji turned Sikhism to its militant face. But for Khalsa Indian history would have been different. Sikhs fought Muslim fanatics gallantly and died in scores. Once after a war in which they were defeated, thousands of Sikh heads were impaled in pols and was paraded in a procession in Lahore, to lampoon them.
Guru Gobind Singh ji , in a meeting wanted, with sword in his hand, one man's head to be given as sacrifice for the first guru. One person came forward and he was taken to the back of the stage and, guru returned with blood dripping from the sword. This was repeated five times. He did'nt kill them, he was just taking the most sincere and dedicated. They were called 'paanch pyare'. And he asked sikhs to add 'Singh' to their name, which meant 'lion'. Guru Gobind Singh ji himself became
