Guru Arjun Dev (1563-1606): Period of Gurudum (1581-1606): Guru Arjun Dev, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs was a contemporary of emperor Akbar and Jahangir. The emperor Jahangir got him murdered at Lahore on May 30, 1606 and the Sikhs remember this sacrifice of the Guru as a ‘martyrdom’ in the cause of Sikh religion. […]