28-year-old Sarwan Singh took off his turban in order to use it to rescue a troubled dog from an irrigation canal in Punjab, India.<\/p>\n
A video shows Mr Singh heroically climbing down the steep banks of the canal and then using his turban, one of the holiest items in the Sikh religion, for the rescue.<\/p>\n
Sarwan said: \u201cI was travelling when I saw a group of men pointing towards the canal. I stopped my car and went over to check what was happening. I was shocked to see that there was a dog drowning but no was actually helping.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarwan, who cannot swim, decided to make use of his turban in a final effort to help the dog.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe moment I started taking off my turban, people watching around were shocked. They thought I was disrespecting my faith,\u201d recalled Sarwan.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what was important at that point was to save the animal\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wearing a turban is one of the five articles of faith in Sikhism. It is a principle of Sikhism that one can only take off their turbans at home or whilst bathing.<\/p>\n
With the help of some witnesses, Sarwan succeeded in reaching the canal by holding his turban, which he utilized as a rope. He used the remaining part of his turban to grip onto the dog.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dog wasn\u2019t comfortable. He was not coming to me at all. We had to follow him for around 200 metres before I was able to wrap my turban around his neck and pull him to safety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dog was frightened, so I fed him some biscuits and let him go on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
28-year-old Sarwan Singh took off his turban in order to use it to rescue a troubled dog from an irrigation canal in Punjab, India. A video shows Mr Singh heroically climbing down the steep banks of the canal and then using his turban, one of the holiest items in the Sikh religion, for the rescue. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}