Akal Purakh

Akal Purakh (Punjabi: ਅਕਾਲ ਪੁਰਖ, romanized: Akāla purakha, lit.

[citation needed] The first word Akal, literally "timeless, immortal, non-temporal," is a term integral to Sikh tradition and philosophy.

It is extensively used in the Guru Granth Sahib, and the Dasam Granth hymns by Guru Gobind Singh, who titled one of his poetic compositions Akal Ustat, i.e. "In Praise (Ustati) of the Timeless One (Akal)".

[1] The term Kāl refers to "time," with the negative prefix a- added to render the word akal, meaning "timeless" or "eternal.

[1] Akal Purakh took pity upon the sufferings of humanity entrapped in sansara, the continuous cycle of rebirth and death, and revealed the divine words (gurshabad) in the form of gurbani, taught by the successive Sikh gurus to those of humanity willing to learn how to know and experience Akal Purakh.