The word Sikh is the Punjabi form of the Sanskrit Shishya (Student), which means a learner or a disciple. Sikhs are disciples of their ten gurus from Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji to Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, some of whose writings are compiled in the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the Sikh sacred book. An act of the Indian Legislature defines a Sikh as one who believes in the ten Gurus and the Guru Granth Sahib Ji. Sikhism is one of the world's youngest faiths. Its foundation dates only from the fifteenth century.
Sikhs trace their history to a small group of disciples of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and his nine successors who lived after him in the area currently defined as north-west India and Pakistan, the Punjab. In its original form, Sikhism contains a strong mystical and devotional basis. It grew out of a combination of devotional (Bhakti) Hinduism and the monotheistic influence of Islam. Guru Nanak held that GOD is the true Guru, unknowable in the transcendent state, but manifested in certain earthly phenomena.
Below is a listing of all ten Gurus, when Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji left this world, he made the Sikh holy scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, the final and eternal Guru of Sikhism. Guru Gobind Singh Ji ordered all Sikhs to follow the Guru Granth Sahib as their Guru beginning Oct 7, 1708, this was the date Guru Gobind Singh Ji left this world.
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