And in this video, we're gonna think about continuity in terms of religious continuity, and in particular, does it have elements from Islam or Hinduism in it? So we could first focus on some of the cultural trappings or some of the historical trappings of Sikhism, and think about the connections to both Hinduism and Islam. The first obvious connection is that Guru Nanak, the first guru, and many of the early gurus, grew up in Hindu families. But there are also cultural connections to Islam. The Sikh religion emerges in Punjab, which is where or near the various Muslim rulers of the time held their capitals. Whether we're talking about the Dali Sultanate, which was in power for over 250 years when Sikhism started to emerge with Guru Nanak, but also the Mughal Empire, which really developed in its early stages at the same time that Sikhism develops. So many of the followers of Sikhism were both Hindu and Muslim.