Spnadmin Ji,
You are right. Many TUKS do stand alone and DO NOT convey a conclusion that may change if the entire shabad is read/vichaared. In fact this "quoting out of context" by uisng one or two TUKS in isolation...seems a disease afflicting ONLY those PSEUDO SCHOLARS or wanna be scholars trying to PUSH their own "Agendas" by picking and choosing tuks out of context and these write only on ENGLISH LANGUAGE Forums like SPN...and they will also try and leave out the AANG becasue that would defeat their purpose.
IN Almost any and all PUNJABI magazines, Lekhs, articles of high schoalrly repute , distinguished schoalrs like Harnam Singh Shaan etc also quote ONLY SINGLE TUKS...because they are PUSHING GURMATT and what the stand alone tuk conveys is also what the full shabad or even the few pages of sggs convey...I Havent yet come across a single article by such scholars where an entire shabad is quoted whenever Gurbani is needed !!
Ragis and Kathawachaks also cite only individual TUKS during the course of theri kirtan/katha/discourse as Mislin ji also does...becasue the Tuk is not out of Context. So its a matter of Honesty of the author that is questionable...not the Tuk being just one or full shabd per se..
I believe we at SPN were forced to enact the Forum TOS on this due to t he flooding of a pseudo scholar pushing his ANTI-Five K agenda by quoting tuks out of context and calling each such foray an "Abstract" !! What he hated most is KESH, (dastaar) and KIRPAN !! so almost all his Abstracts target the Kesh and Kirpan.
I beleive we can relax the rule now and then if the spn poster has shown his honesty/love for Gurmatt principles rather than continue to impose a blanket ban on single tuks...
My apologies if not appropriate but I always say what i mean and mean what i say..
