[Sat Khalsa]

Many people from a variety of cultures wear turbans, but, as a Sikh, I know that Sikhs are supposed to wear turbans as visible expression of our religious faith. Under it is unshorn hair (which can mean no hair at all–Sikhs can go bald too) braided or rolled into a bun on top of our heads which we call a joora. Most Sikhs also wear a small comb (kanga) tucked underneath this joora, which is also one of the five articles of faith (the five ‘k’s) that Sikhs are enjoined to wear at all times (kesh/hair; kanga/comb; kirpan/knife; kara/iron bracelet; kaccha/boxer shorts).

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[Sat Khalsa]

Unshorn hair is the visible expression of our faith in God. Guru Gobind Singh ordered us to keep our hair–we obey, as a sign of our faith in his teachings as a path to God. Our kesh (hair) embodies in a concrete way the essence of the Sikh way of life: living the way God made us is a step toward learning to live according to God’s will for us. The fact that long hair makes us stand out binds us together recognizably as a community and challenges us to look inside ourselves for meaning rather than rely on what the world says about us. All of these reasons continue to have meaning today for those who choose to be Sikhs.

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