Sacred Text · The Guru Granth Sahib
Regard all men as equal
A hymn of Guru Nanak · Guru Nanak
Translation: Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume I (Oxford University Press, 1909), public domain (author died 1913), via the Internet Archive. We use Macauliffe rather than the modern Sant Singh Khalsa translation, whose redistribution licensing is not clearly established. Ang (page) numbers cite the fixed standard pagination of the printed Sri Guru Granth Sahib; a few well-known lines from Guru Nanak’s hymns are cited to Macauliffe’s volume rather than to a specific Ang. Obvious scanning artefacts were corrected against Macauliffe’s printed wording; passages are reproduced in context.
How this connects to Jesus
Regard all men as equal, Guru Nanak taught, since God’s light is contained in the heart of each. Scripture says God made every person in his own image (Genesis 1:27), and Paul declared that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, for all are one (Galatians 3:28). A beautiful meeting on the equal dignity of every human being before the one God.
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