ps SKETCH OF THE SIKHS. 



a. future states apd that he represented it to his followers, as a system,., in 

 which Gqd, by. shewing a heaven and a hell, had, in his great goodnessv 

 held out future rewards and punishments to man, whose will he had left 

 free, to incite him to good actions, and deter him. from bad. The principle. 

 Qf reward, and punishment is so nearly the same in the Hindu and in the. 

 Miihammedan religion, that it was not difficult for Na'nac to reconcile his 

 f^ollowers upon this point ; hut in this, as in all others, he seems to have 

 bent to the dowlrine of. Brahma'. In all his writings, however, he borrow- 

 ed indiierently from the Koran and the Hindu Sdstras; and his example.. 

 was followed byhis successors ; and quotations from the scriptures of the 

 Hindus y and froni the book of Muhammep, are indiscriminately introdu- 

 ced into all their sacred writings, to elucidate those points, on which it was 

 their object to reconcile these jarring religions^ 



With the exa6l mode in which Na^nac instru6led his followers to ad- 

 4ress their prayers to that supreme being whom he taught them to adore, 

 I am not acquainted. Their D'herma Sdla^ or temples of worship, are, in 

 general, plain buildings. Images are, of course, banished: their prescribed 

 forms of prayer are, I believe, few and simple i part of the writings of 

 Na'nag, which have since been incorporated with those of his successors^ 

 in thQAdiGrdnt^kizx^Teddy or rather recited, upon every solemn occasi- 

 on. ■ These are all in praise of the deity, of religion, and of virtue; and 

 against impiety, and inirn¥orality„ The- Adi Grant' h, the whole of the 

 first part of which is Ascribed' to^NA^NAC, is written, like the rest of the 

 books -of the *SfH5, in the Gurumuk'k^ chara<51:er. I can only judge very 

 lmperfe<5i:Iy of the value of this work; but some extrads, translated from 



A modified species of the Ndgan ch.axa.ctex^ 



