Bhai Pheru Ji - Good Masand

Masands who were appointed by the third Guru, Guru Amar Das Ji were very chardi kala Gursikh but by the time Guru Gobind Singh Ji took the Guruship from Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib, the masands got corrupted very badly.

The masands who were appointed to preach Gursikhi, collect Daswand and provide social, political and religious leadership to the Sikhs who lived in far off lands, totally forgot their duties and started extorting money from people, and did some very bad things like adultry and rape etc. They made the people quiet by scaring them with curses and other means. In short they had become scoundrels from saints.

When Guru Gobind Singh Ji heard all this he got very upset. As you all know that he was very strict on Maryada. He ordered his Khalsa to make the masands appear in front of him. He further ordered his Singhs to bring them holding them by their beards. The Singhs heard this and heeded by dragging and abducting the masands and made them appear before Guru Sahib.

In those days the masand of Lahore was Bhai Pheru Ji who apart from being the true masand was a Gursikh of high spritual stages. When the Singhs came to get him they could not dare to put their hands on the beard of such a great Gursikh. At this Bhai Pheru Ji begged them to hold him by the beard but the Singhs could not do it. Then Bhai Sahib Ji held his beard in his own hand and came in the darbar of Guru Gobind Singh Ji.

When Guru Gobind Singh Ji saw Bhai Pheru coming, he got bairaag. He got up from his throne and embraced Bhai Pheru Ji and said that the order of holding the masands by beard was not for the Gursikhs like you. Such is the humility of Gursikhs. Bhai Pheru Ji took amrit and got even more respect now after appearing in the Guru’s darbar.

Following are some points we learn from this saakhi:

1) Gursikhs keep humility and never ever show pride in the darbar of Guru. What is the being (aukaat) of a human. If Guru takes away the sight of mercy from an individual, a person becomes dust in two seconds.

2) People who jaap the naam of Waheguru and do Bhagti have so much noor/grace on their face that no one can even look at them. The Singhs who went to catch Bhai Pheru Ji could not even talk rudely to him let alone grabbing him by the beard.