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It may not be mentioned anywhere that the Gurus HAD to be selected from blood relations, but that's what happened didn't it.  So then wouldn't that give Bibi Bhani's request some truth.  You said though they were of blood relations, it didn't affect their ability to be of spiritual excellence.  Here's my argument.  The title of this post is that the Guru's were not "chosen".  And when I say chosen, I mean chosen by God.  We put the Guru's on a God Like platform, and connect everything they did (taught lessons, performed miracles, etc.) to God.  Truth is the Guru's were personally selected by each Guru for their predecessor, and they chose that of blood relation, and to me that is a form of Monarchy.  How can anyone argue that our religion was not created from a form of Monarchism.

Other individuals may have contributed to verses or scripts in the Guru Granth Sahib, but you never hear of them that much.  They don't have their birth or death celebrated or remembered.  Yet each Guru is remembered individually.  So my thinking was, before I keep committing myself, and my kids future to Sikhi, I wanted to know the History.  At first I didn't know that the majority of the Guru's were related.  I knew Guru Teg Bahadur and Guru Gobind were father/son, but didn't know the others were to.  So how is this equality.  A monarchy is no way a fair or equal system in which to live in.  The people couldn't decide if the Guru's selections was correct or not.  Who gave the Guru's the power to select ... God? Really?  Doesn't seem like it, at least not to me.