The Myth of Scriptural Sexual Liberation: Misogyny, Shaming, and the Reality of Sikh Infidelity

Misogyny, Shaming, And The Reality of Sikh Infidelity

The Myth of Scriptural Sexual Liberation: Misogyny, Shaming, and the Reality of Sikh Infidelity

Mainstream Sikh apologists and internet influencers frequently deploy a polished, Westernized public relations spin to market their Sikhism to the next generation. They claim that their Sikh scriptures completely revolutionized women’s rights, validated human expression, and teach that everyone is equally loved.

When it comes to adult relationships, casual dating, or sexual autonomy, this narrative completely collapses under textual scrutiny.

When the raw, medieval text of the Guru Granth Sahib (GGS) is read literally, it reveals a deeply patriarchal framework that systematically degrades, mocks, and shames women who express independent sexual desires, while utilizing visceral slurs to terrorize anyone guilty of infidelity. By analyzing these verses alongside modern Western sociological data, we expose a massive logical fracture: the scripture relies on medieval shaming tactics to police human biology, rendering its moral framework entirely obsolete in a modern, secular world.

Part 1: The Sikh Scriptural Shaming of the Lustful Woman

In modern Western society, sexual autonomy and casual relationships are recognized as matters of personal choice and adult consensus. In the text of the Gurus, however, female sexual desire outside the strict confines of serving a husband-master is treated as a vile, spiritual disease.

The scripture employs the archetype of the "Unvirtuous Bride" (Kusulakhi or Dohagan ) to degrade women expressing natural desires, featuring verses from the Guru Granth Sahib (such as Ang 30 Ang 89, and Ang 113) that utilize metaphors comparing independent women to ugly-faced figures, wandering prostitutes, or filthy, blackened outcasts. Branding independent exploration through such harsh imagery represents a traditional method of enforcing patriarchal compliance rather than a timeless philosophical truth.

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"Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru shall have their faces blackened." — Guru Amar Das Ang 30

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"Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord. — Guru Angad
O Nanak, that human body, in which there is no pain of separation from the Lord-take that body and burn it.
Forgetting the Primal Lord, O Nanak, people are born and die, over and over again. — Guru Arjan
Mistaking it for musk, they have fallen into the stinking pit of filth.

Meditate on that Name of the Lord, O my mind, whose Command rules over all. —Guru Ram Das
Chant that Name of the Lord, O my mind, which will save you at the very last moment.
Chant that Name of the Lord, O my mind, which shall drive out all hunger and desire from your mind.
Very fortunate and blessed is that Gurmukh who chants the Naam; it shall bring all slanderers and wicked enemies to fall at his feet.
O Nanak, worship and adore the Naam, the Greatest Name of all, before which all come and bow."

She may wear good clothes, but the bride is ugly and rude; her mind is false and impure. —Guru Ram Das
She does not walk in harmony with the Will of her Husband Lord. Instead, she foolishly gives Him orders.
But she who walks in harmony with the Guru's Will, shall be spared all pain and suffering.
That destiny which was pre-ordained by the Creator cannot be erased.
She must dedicate her mind and body to her Husband Lord, and enshrine love for the Word of the Shabad.
Without His Name, no one has found Him; see this and reflect upon it in your heart.
O Nanak, she is beautiful and graceful; the Creator Lord ravishes and enjoys her. " — Guru Amar Das Ang 89

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"The blind, self-willed manmukhs do not understand or appreciate this.
Those who become Gurmukh-their houses are protected. The five enemies are destroyed by the Shabad." — Guru Amar Das Ang 113

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"The self-willed manmukhs do not even think of the Naam. Cursed are their lives, and cursed are their homes.
That Lord who gives them so much to eat and wear - they do not enshrine that Lord, the Treasure of Virtue, in their minds.
This mind is not pierced by the Word of the Shabad; how can it come to dwell in its true home?
The self-willed manmukhs are like discarded brides, ruined by coming and going in the cycle of reincarnation.
The Gurmukhs are embellished and exalted by the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the jewel of destiny is engraved upon their foreheads." — Guru Amar Das Ang 1416

"The self-willed Manmukhs are like discarded brides, ruined by coming and going in the cycle of reincarnation."
— Guru Amar Das Ang 1416

Note: When the Fifth Sikh Guru compiled the scripture, he organized it by musical raags (measures). To create complete theological lessons, he took a foundational stanza (Pauree) by one Guru and inserted supplementary verses (Shaloks) written by earlier or later Gurus right above and below it. The block of quotes captures a direct editorial handoff between four different Gurus within a single page of text. The text literally operates like a musical playlist or a curated scrapbook where individual snippets and couplets from different centuries are stitched tightly together.

When you analyze this analogy objectively, it reveals a profoundly exclusionary mechanism that relies on weaponizing the misery of vulnerable women to score a theological point.

Sikh Apologist:
Sikh Guru's used polarizing, absolute terms because, in their view, there is no neutral ground. You are either actively mastering your mind (Gurmukh), or your mind and its desires are mastering you (Manmukh). So, when the text judges someone engaging in casual relationships or rejecting God, it isn't out of malice toward the individual. It is a stark, uncompromising warning that living purely for the physical moment ultimately leaves the soul bankrupt.

Reality: To a person living in modern society, choosing to have casual relationships or choosing not to believe in God is seen as a completely valid expression of personal autonomy. But within the rigid, absolute moral framework of medieval Sikhism, there is no room for consensual but detached behavior. If you reject the spiritual path, the text uses the most aggressive, humiliating street insults of its era to condemn that choice.
The verses state that a Manmukh departs with a blackened face because, by prioritizing short-term physical pleasure over long-term loyalty and spiritual discipline, they have broken their own moral compass. The text views this not as an exercise of healthy free will, but as a total failure of self-mastery.

When Sikh apologists say, "It's just an old metaphor," they are historically correct about the text's origins. But the critics are also correct about the modern psychological impact: constantly weaponizing the concept of a "blackened face" to denote evil inevitably reinforces colorism and subconscious bias and degrading behavior of today.

The Anatomy of a Cruel Analogy

To understand why this analogy is so demoralizing, we have to look at the social reality of 16th-century India, Punjab. During that era, a discarded bride (Dohagan ) was the absolute lowest social entity. She was dumped by her husband, stripped of her economic security, socially ostracized, and treated as an unholy, broken outcast.

Instead of offering unconditional empathy to these abandoned women, the Sikh Guru deliberately weaponized their tragic social status as a slur .

The logic of the analogy works exactly like this:

A discarded wife is useless, ruined, and rejected by her master.
Therefore, if you are an atheist, a independent thinker, or an ungodly Manmukh, you are just like that worthless, discarded woman—ruined and dumped by God.

Using the real-world suffering and degradation of an abandoned human being to describe a person who simply uses their reason to reject a Sikh God is a completely heartless and backward way to teach spirituality.

The Moral and Logical Failure

This verse completely shatters the modern internet myth that "Sikhism completely liberated women and granted them supreme equality."

If the system truly viewed women as equal, independent human beings with inherent cosmic worth, its supreme leaders would not continuously use a woman’s marital dependency and abandonment as a visual metaphor for spiritual failure.

By tying a woman’s worth entirely to her submission to her husband-master (and mapping that onto the soul's submission to God), the text reinforces the exact medieval patriarchal hierarchy it claims to have destroyed. To a modern secular mind, declaring that an independent human soul is ruined like a dumped wife is not divine wisdom—it is primitive, institutional bullying.

Part 2: The Scriptural Terrorization of Adulterers

Secular societies function perfectly well without religious enforcement of personal relationships. A married couple can have a deep, unbreakable form of mutual respect based purely on valuing each other's humanity and autonomy.

To a secular person, cheating is a failure of character and empathy . For religious text, cheating is a symptom of spiritual bankruptcy and a failure to submit to a higher power .

For billions of people today, marital loyalty is not based on divine command or the fear of spiritual damnation. Instead, it is based on empathy, mutual respect, and social contract theory .

In a secular framework, the moral compass is grounded in human-to-human relationships, not human-to-divine obligations.

The Implicit Contract: When two people enter a monogamous relationship or marriage, they make a voluntary agreement. Infidelity is wrong because it is a breach of contract—it involves deception, lying, and breaking a promise made to someone you claim to care about.
The Principle of Harm: Secular ethics relies heavily on the "Harm Principle" (popularised by philosophers like John Stuart Mill). Cheating causes measurable, profound psychological and emotional trauma to another human being. You do not need a Sikh holy text to know that inflicting pain and violating someone’s trust is inherently wrong; human empathy is enough to dictate that.

While it feels like absolute common sense to us today, historically, human behavior has rarely been governed by simple common sense.

However, It would be completely absurd to think that India was a lawless, chaotic free-for-all where everyone was cheating until Sikhism arrived 500 years ago. Extensive, highly sophisticated moral compasses, legal codes, and strict marital philosophies existed in India for thousands of years before the Sikh Gurus.

The phrase "common sense" can be misleading because what we call common sense today is actually the result of thousands of years of deeply ingrained cultural and religious conditioning.

India's pre-Sikh moral frameworks show that the subcontinent already had highly structured guardrails for relationships, though they operated differently from modern secular ethics.

For over 2,500 years before Sikhism, Indian society was governed by the deeply rooted concept of Dharma (righteousness, duty, and cosmic order). Fidelity was heavily hardcoded into the culture through epic literature and religious law long before the 1500s:

The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are thousands of years old. Rama and Sita were universally worshiped across India as the absolute ideals of monogamy and marital devotion (Ek Patni Vrata —the vow of having only one wife). Adultery was framed as a cosmic sin that could bring down entire kingdoms (as seen with Ravana).

The Texts of Law (Dharmashastras ): Ancient texts like the Manusmriti and Arthashastra contained incredibly strict—and often brutal—legal punishments for adultery and infidelity to protect family lineages.
The Sramana Traditions: Buddhism and Jainism, both arising in India around 2,500 years ago, introduced explicit vows against sexual misconduct (Abrahmacharya or Kamesu Micchacara ) for laypeople, emphasizing that lust destroys inner peace.

[1] https://buddhist-spirituality.com/the-five-precepts/no-sexual-misconduct

If India already had a functional moral compass regarding marriage, why did the Sikh Gurus write such intense, fiery poetry about it?

A powerful moral compass existed for millennia. Sikhism didn't introduce the concept of marital loyalty to India; it attempted to democratise it, strip it of ritualism, and use fiery poetry to hold a mirror up to a Hindu society that had the rules but was failing to live by them.

When Sikhism boasts about having a unique, uncompromising moral compass, the actual behavior of its most powerful historical icons can make those claims look deeply hypocritical and retarded.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the absolute pinnacle of Sikh political power, did not live by the strict monogamous rules laid out in the Guru Granth Sahib. Instead, he adopted the exact same decadent royal lifestyle as the Mughal and Rajput rulers who came before him. While the official Sikh Code of Conduct (Rehat Maryada) demanded strict monogamy and completely forbade looking at other women with lust, Ranjit Singh operated a traditional, massive royal court.
He had at least 20 official wives through both traditional Sikh marriage (Anand Karaj) and local political alliances.
He maintained a large harem containing dozens of concubines and Kashmiri nautch (dancing) girls. One of his most famous and influential wives, Moran Sarkar, was a Muslim nautch girl whom he aggressively lustfully pursued.

Perhaps the most shocking violation of Sikh doctrine occurred at his funeral in 1839. The Sikh Gurus had explicitly banned Sati (widow burning). Yet, when Ranjit Singh died, four of his Hindu wives and seven of his concubines committed Sati, burning alive on his funeral pyre while the Sikh religious elite stood by and allowed it, clapping hands.

[1] https://www.nation.com.pk/27-Jun-2022/samadhi-of-ranjit-singh-a-beacon-for-generations-arora

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Ranjit_Singh

[3] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/kaleidoscope/sati-choice-before-maharaja-ranjit-s-ranis-99411/

Many Sikh modern internet apologists look back at history through a highly sanitized, idealized lens. They praise the fiery, perfectionist poetry of the scripture, but ignore the messy, human realities of how actual Sikh rulers behaved when they finally achieved absolute wealth and power.
When the rubber met the road in the 19th century, the temptations of the "Five Thieves" (Kaam and Ahankar—lust and ego) corrupted the Sikh ruling class just as easily as they had corrupted the Roman, Mughal, or British empires.

The Sikh Gurus wrote intense poetry to hold a mirror up to society to shame Hindus, but by the 1800s, their own Sikh kings shattered that mirror by building harems and practicing polygamy. A complete and utter failure of Sikhism.

Society used religion as a tool of survival and social engineering to keep communities stable:

Paternity and Property: Before modern DNA testing, marital fidelity was heavily policed to ensure that property and inheritance passed to legitimate heirs.
The Rulebook as a Guardrail: Ancient societies viewed human nature as inherently chaotic and driven by primal animal impulses. Religious frameworks used extreme language (like the "blackened face" or threats of hellfire) because they believed human empathy alone was too weak to restrain people from acting on lust or greed. They felt people needed absolute, terrifying boundaries to keep their impulses in check.

This highlights the fundamental shift between how a secular person and a religious text view a relationship:

Attribute	Secular Relationship	Religious Framework (e.g., Scriptural)
The Authority	The two individuals in the relationship.	God, the scripture, or religious law.
The Primary Sin	Betraying your partner's trust and causing them emotional harm.	Succumbing to ego (Haumai ), letting lust (Kaam ) control you, and turning away from God.
The Anchor	Personal respect, love, and your own moral compass.	Divine duty, spiritual purity, and fear of spiritual degradation.

When addressing marital infidelity, the Sikh text escalates to punitive and graphic warnings, threatening wrongdoers with severe karmic retribution and subhuman degradation, such as reincarnation as a donkey carrying manure or being crushed in an oil-press. These disgusting visceral threats rely on primitive fear tactics rather than universal cosmic compassion.

"They do not know the kind and compassionate Lord; they shall be crushed like sesame seeds in the oil-press."— Ang 1020

"Kabeer, I was being crushed like sesame seeds in the oil-press, but the True Guru saved me."— Ang 1375

"One who slanders the Perfect True Guru... is made into an ox at the oil-press; each morning when he rises, God places the yoke upon him."— Ang 309

"Without meditating in remembrance of the Lord, one is like a donkey. The faithless cynic wanders around in polluted places (manure/filth)."— Ang 239

"The blind fool abandons the wife of his own home, and has an affair with another woman."— Ang 1164

""He has naturally and intuitively become detached from the world.
Like the woman who falls in love with another man,
and the greedy man who loves only wealth,
and the sexually promiscuous man who loves women and sex,"— Bhagat Namdev Ang 1164

"The self-willed manmukhs find no place in the Court of the Lord; they do their deeds in the love of duality.
Cursed is the food, and cursed are the clothes, of those who are attached to the love of duality.
They are like maggots in manure, sinking into manure. In death and rebirth, they are wasted away to ruin."— Ang 1347

""The sweet flavors tempt you, and you are occupied by your false and filthy business.
Your senses are beguiled by sensual pleasures of sex, by anger, greed and emotional attachment.
The All-powerful Architect of Destiny has ordained that you shall be reincarnated over and over again.
When the Destroyer of the pains of the poor becomes merciful, then, as Gurmukh, you shall find absolute peace.
Says Nanak, meditate on the Lord, day and night, and all your sickness shall be banished. "— Ang 403

"For a moment of sexual pleasure, you shall suffer in pain for millions of days."— Ang 403

"You are deceived, beholding with your eyes, the bitter melon and swallow-wort.
But, like the companionship of a poisonous snake, so is the desire for another's spouse.
For the sake of your enemy, you commit sins, while you neglect the reality of your faith.
Your friendship is with those who abandon you, and you are angry with your friends.
The entire world is entangled in this way; he alone is saved, who has the Perfect Guru." — Ang 403

""O sexual desire, you lead the mortals to hell; you make them wander in reincarnation through countless species.
You cheat the consciousness, and pervade the three worlds. You destroy meditation, penance and virtue.
But you give only shallow pleasure, while you make the mortals weak and unsteady; you pervade the high and the low.
Your fear is dispelled in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, O Nanak, through the Protection and Support of the Lord.""— Ang 1358

"whose eyes do not gaze upon the beauty of others' wives,"— Ang 274

While modern Sikh apologetics often present a highly sanitized version of Sikhism focused exclusively on love and universal acceptance, the actual Guru Granth Sahib contains graphic descriptions of karmic punishment, animal reincarnation, and spiritual degradation designed to shocks individuals out of moral complacency.

The Psychological Difference Between The Hindu Bhagavad Gita And The Sikh Guru Granth Sahib

While both texts agree that wrongdoing causes harm, the pedagogical approach—the way they teach and correct the human being —is radically different. One uses philosophical instruction, while the other uses intense emotional and social humiliation.

By modern psychological standards, this can be damaging to a person’s self-esteem. Here is a breakdown of why this structural difference exists between the two scriptures.

The Bhagavad Gita: The Kind, Compassionate Analytical, Clinical Approach

If a person fails morally in Hinduism and reads the Bhagavad Gita , the text DOES NOT scream at them or call them names.

The Narrative Structure: The Gita is a calm, philosophical dialogue between a student (Arjuna) and a teacher (Krishna) on a battlefield.
The Diagnostic Tone: Krishna acts like a spiritual clinician. He explains the psychological mechanics of how a human falls. In Chapter 2, Verses 62–63, he calmly explains: “While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises. From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool.”
Preserving the Self: The Gita constantly reminds the reader that their true inner self (Atman ) is untainted, pure, and eternal. The wrongdoing is just mud on the window; it needs to be cleaned through knowledge (Jnana ) and duty (Dharma ). It corrects without attacking the core dignity of the individual.

- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16, Verses 21–22:

"There are three gates leading to this hell – lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.
The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination."

The approach here is remarkably calm, clinical, and constructive. Krishna does not hurl insults at the person struggling with these vices, nor does he label them an animal. He treats hell as a structural consequence of an unbalanced psychological state—a doorway of darkness that a sane person should choose to step away from to protect their own soul.

The Sikh Guru Granth Sahib: The Animalistic Mental Shock-Therapy Approach

In contrast, the Guru Granth Sahib uses what psychologists today would call "shame-based shock therapy."

The Linguistic Weaponry: The Sikh text uses the most degrading street insults of medieval Punjab—calling the wrongdoer an ugly thief, a donkey, a dog, a prostitute's son, or someone with a "blackened face."
The Intended Mechanism: The Sikh Gurus were dealing with people whom they believed were entirely numb to polite philosophy. They believed that the human Ego (Haumai ) is so arrogant, stubborn, and blind that gentle guidance slips right off it. Therefore, they used extreme, humiliating poetry to completely crush and shatter the reader's ego.
The Modern Risk: The major flaw with this method in 2026, it doesn't just dismantle the spiritual ego; it can utterly destroy a person's psychological self-esteem. For a modern individual struggling with guilt, reading that they are a "wretched, black-faced animal" doesn't necessarily inspire them to heal; it can trap them in deep self-loathing and depression.

Why Secular and Modern Spiritual Practices Have Moved On

This is precisely why many modern Sikhs, reject Sikhism—prefer to anchor their loyalty and moral compass in mutual respect rather than scriptural threats.

Today, we understand that human behavior is best corrected through empathy, self-reflection, and restorative accountability , rather than public humiliation or spiritual curses. A person can recognize that cheating is a terrible betrayal of their partner, feel genuine remorse, and fix their character without having to view themselves as a subhuman animal.

A moral compass does not require a text that abuses or shames you into submission. While the Sikh scripture used severe medieval Punjabi idioms to violently jolt the arrogant egos of its era, its highly aggressive, humiliating tone faces severe friction today because it clashes with our modern understanding of mental health, self-worth, and emotional healing.

Part 3: The Reality of Modern Western Sociological Data

Empirical sociological research demonstrates that human relationships operate independently of ancient dogmas:

Premarital Exploration: Data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) indicates that over 85% of adults engage in premarital relationships and casual dating.
Rates of Infidelity: Studies by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and the General Social Survey (GSS) show consistent baseline rates of infidelity (around 20% for men and 13% for women) across demographics, proving that diaspora and religious communities share similar relational behaviors driven by biology and psychology rather than scriptural immunity.

Conclusion: The Interfaith Marriage Crisis and the Collapse of Sikh Divine Authority

Internet Sikh apologists often manufacture a liberalized, sex-positive narrative to appeal to younger Sikh diaspora generations, masking the raw patriarchal shaming found in the original Gurmukhi. Ultimately, literal interpretations reveal a time-bound medieval code rather than a modern framework for human relationships.

When 74% of British Sikhs favor interfaith marriages inside the Gurdwara, they are directly demanding a change to the core rules of their own faith—a move that logically shatters the claim that the religion is guided by a perfect, unalterable divine decree.

The toxic combination of medieval scriptural shaming and rigid institutional codes has trapped modern diaspora Sikhs between two incompatible worlds.

On one hand, the Sikh Rehat Maryada (the official Code of Conduct) and the ruling religious bodies like the Sikh Council UK maintain a strict, exclusive barrier: the Anand Karaj (wedding ceremony) is a sacred spiritual contract reserved solely for two practicing Sikhs. On the other hand, secular reality has completely overtaken this dogma. Raised in multicultural, democratic Western societies, younger generations are increasingly choosing to marry partners from outside the faith.

When these two worlds collide, the entire universalist Sikh PR image of the religion fractures into public scandal, as evidenced by real-world events:

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/1080436589448705/posts/1934148507410838/ (No Sikh Girl Should Marry Into A Non-Sikh Family)

[2] https://the-ipf.com/2016/09/13/young-british-sikh-interfaith-marriage/ (Sikh Men, Marrying Who They please)

1. The Weaponization of the Gurdwara Space

The rigid enforcement of the Rehat Maryada has led to a spate of aggressive, highly publicized disruptions across the UK, where orthodox vigilante groups have stormed Gurdwaras to stop interfaith unions. Media reports from BBC News and ITV News document the heartbreaking reality of this dogmatic enforcement: couples are routinely harassed, forced to cancel their planned weddings, or driven to wed in absolute secrecy to escape community intimidation. The system does not offer unconditional love; it demands tribal purity.

2. The 74% Paradox: Rewriting the Operating System

The most devastating logical blow to the Sikh Religion comes from within its own population. A comprehensive survey conducted by a network of professional British Sikhs revealed that 74% of British Sikhs are in favor of allowing interfaith marriages inside Gurdwaras.

This statistic exposes a fatal internal contradiction:

The Theological Failure: If Sikhism is a timeless, perfect, and divinely authored spiritual path, its rules should be absolute.
The Democratic Revision: The moment a community relies on committee guidelines, six-month protest truces, and modern consensus to "alter or soften" the rules written under the authority of their Gurus, it ceases to be a divine law. It reveals itself as a highly compromised, human-made political structure that must constantly alter its own code just to survive.

The Final Verdict

This is why an increasing number of independent humanists and secular individuals (Sikhs) are choosing to abandon or marry out of the community. They recognize the profound hypocrisy of a system that markets itself online as a beacon of universal equality and human rights, yet strips away a person's dignity, disrupts their wedding, and treats them as a spiritual outcast the moment they choose to love someone outside the club.

If a religion requires a 74% democratic override from its own followers to fix its foundational codes, its claim to superior, divine logic completely collapses.

[1] https://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-10-15/inter-faith-couple-forced-to-wed-in-secret-describe-heartbreak-caused-by-protests-against-their-union
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21721519
[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-37332307
[4] https://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/89549-another-interfaith-marriage-uk

Below more. verses shaming women into submission from the Sri Granth Database which is a widely used English translation by Dr Sant Singh Khalsa .

Page 30, Line 3
Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru shall have their faces blackened.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 8
She may wear good clothes, but the bride is ugly and rude; her mind is false and impure.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 9
She does not walk in harmony with the Will of her Husband Lord. Instead, she foolishly gives Him orders.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 9.
But she who walks in harmony with the Guru’s Will, shall be spared all pain and suffering.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 9
That destiny which was preordained by the Creator cannot be erased.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 10
She must dedicate her mind and body to her Husband Lord, and enshrine love for the Word of the Shabad.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 10
Without His Name, no one has found Him; see this and reflect upon it in your heart.
Guru Amar Das

Page 89, Line 11
O Nanak! She is beautiful and graceful; the Creator Lord ravishes and enjoys her.
Guru Amar Das

Page 113, Line 4
The blind, self-willed Manmukhs do not understand or appreciate this.
Guru Amar Das

Page 1416, Line 13
The self-willed Manmukhs are like discarded brides, ruined by coming and going in the cycle of reincarnation.
Guru Amar Das

Further Extracts: The Scriptural Shaming of the Lustful Woman

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