Shabad: Word

Shabad is the term used by Sikhs to refer to a hymn or paragraph or sections of the Holy Text that appears in their several Holy Books. The main holy scripture of the Sikhs is the Sri Guru Granth Sahib also shortened to SGGS. The first Shabad in the SGGS is the Mool Mantar. The text used for the Shabad is in the holy book is Gurmukhi. Below is the Shabad in English transliteration and translation. A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith originating in the Punjab. ... Many religions and spiritual movements hold certain written texts (or series of spoken legends not traditionally written down) to be sacred. ... Many religions and spiritual movements hold certain written texts (or series of spoken legends not traditionally written down) to be sacred. ... Guru Granth Sahib (Granth is Punjabi for book, Sahib is Hindi meaning master, from Arabic, meaning companion, friend, owner, or master) or Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji or SGGS for short, is more than a holy book of the Sikhs. ... Guru Granth Sahib (Granth is Punjabi for book, Sahib is Hindi meaning master, from Arabic, meaning companion, friend, owner, or master) or Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji or SGGS for short, is more than a holy book of the Sikhs. ... The Gurmukhi (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ or ਗੁਰਮੁੱਖੀ) script, derived from the Later Sharada script and standardised by Guru Angad Dev in the 16th century, was designed to write the Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) language. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one script into another script. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ...

Mool Mantar

 ik-oNkaar" There is Only One God" sat naam kartaa purakh nirbha-o nirvair Truth is Your Name Creator Perfect Keeper Fearless Without Enmity 

 akaal moorat ajoonee SaibhaN gur parsaad The primary Entity Without Incarnations Self-perpetuating With the Guru’s grace 

 jap aad sach jugaad sach hai bhee sach Recite! True in the beginning True Through the Ages True even now and 

 naanak hosee bhee sach ||1|| says Nanak - Will be True in the future 

External Links

• To see the holy book in it original text follow this link: Gurbani.net (http://www.gurbani.net/religion/philosophyofsikhism/Banis/japuji/japujisahib2a.php)

• To see the holy book in it original text with translation follow this link: Sikhi to the Max (http://www.sikhitothemax.com/page.asp?SourceID=G&pageno=1)