All jis!
Your Spirited Defense of Universal Brotherhood - against the attempts of an 'Anti-Muslim' personage, is WONDERFUL; but then, as an American Buddhist (and, thus, a Minority - despite being a 'white male'), I've made it my business to try and show a little Love ot the Muslims - and Sikhs! (always a 'Gurtafeh' to my puzzled looking neighbors) - about me, who I know to be under assault by those who claim to embrace the Teachings of the 'Prince of Peace' (Jesus), but - mostly - see their belief, as an unfortunate excuse (Justification?) to dream of reliving the unfortunate Historical Events known as The Crusades.
I've been thinking, ever since I read 'An Introduction to Sikhism', that the Sikhi - if anybody - can serve as the arbitors of Peace; as you are some of the most unflinch-ingly dedicated 'peaceniks' on the planet - despite the Kirtanas!
One correction, though: Prophecy IS a Real Thing. It doesn't affect (negate?) Gurmat in the way that you think it does, for the same reason that it often seems so vague.
We all do indeed have Gurmat - but we also do deeds, and they become part of the Universal Book (or Record) of Life; so, though we make our future decisions based on our Free Will, they are all - in a very real way - already set down in that Book; which is why one can only read it if one has entered the Transcedant State (I'm trying to remember the proper Punjabi words for these things, but my memory fails me), in which we are 'seeing, though we have no eyes,' etc..
In this state, Time becomes more like a direction - Left or Right, become Past of Future (somewhere a neuroscientist - or a Urologist {you know who YOU are, Ha, Ha!} is going 'Tsk, tsk! That's just the Neurons in this misguided non-atheists' Temporal Lobe misfiring!'); and that Fact is why we are not normally attuned to the senses that we all have when we Die - as well as why, when a still mortal being 'visits' that state, he/she may catch a glimpse of a Future Incarnation, but never of the Future of his/her current one.
So I've observed.
Harsimiritkaur ji
I take acception to your indicating that the 'Biblical Prophets' never gave into Sin; as many, many of these personages 'Prophetic Visions' were used as - and still are being used as - Justification for WARS and all kinds of other attrocities!
Look at Lot; he escaped Soddom - supposedly the only 'Good Man', then proceded to 'restart his tribe' with his teen-aged daughters; a serious Crime, in todays world!
Also, I would like to know: Just what is the difference between a "vision" and a "halucination"?
Let me enlighten you: The former is a "vision" that the Orthodoxy of the day accepts - the latter is a "vision" that will get made to sit on a Red Hot Plate.
Because I'm an Ex-Catholic Buddhist - one whose been 'under attack' since someone I fired told the Church about my own 'vision' (which, of course, then became a halucination; which, of course, got me labeled 'Insane' - by a Catholic Doctor who deliberately messed up my Social Security Disability Pension Claims and Appeals - while they deliberately ignore my Chronic Pain. Would you commit a Crime - a 'sin' - to be free from it? I was forced to - and it's THEIR doings, not my morals, that are to be questioned!) I can tell you just what that feels like!
I'm sorry to dump on you, but - in the 14 years since they started plotting against my Civil Rights - I've had all the Christian Hypocracy I can stand. they told me, after finding out about my Neuropathy, that they don't care that they messed up my Official Documents; according to them, it's OK - as, "Leaving the Catholic Church is CRAZY and it SHOULD BE PAINFUL." They also think I should be, "Made to suffer, for refusing the Lord."
These people made me act like a cornered animal to survive - to not be in Pain - and I'll always RESENT IT!
