Sikhism

The Creed Archive Dialogues · Aug 22, 2026 · 34m

A man disappears into a river, leaving behind only rumors. When he emerges three days later, he brings a message that will reshape villages, challenge empires, and spark a new religious tradition in northern India.This is the story of Sikhism’s beginnings—a tale woven from both devotion and history. In the late fifteenth century, Punjab was a crossroads. Caravans threaded through fertile plains; Sufi mystics recited Persian poetry, and bhakti saints sang in the local tongue. Into this world, Guru Nanak was born in fourteen sixty-nine, in a village called Talwandi—now known as Nankana Sahib…