Medicine for an Enemy's Son

Guru Har Rai kept a garden of rare healing herbs and was known to help anyone who was ill. One day a message came: a powerful man's son was gravely sick and needed a rare medicine that only the Guru's garden held.

This man had not been a friend to the Sikhs. Yet the Guru did not hesitate for a moment — he sent the precious medicine at once, and the boy recovered.

“We heal the sick,” said the Guru, “without first asking whose side they are on.”