Guru Amar Das Sahib – the third Sikh Guru – lifted the status of women and gave them equality with men. He strictly prohibited practices such as sati (the burning of the wife on her husband’s funeral pyre) and purdah (seclusion of women), and encouraged the remarriage of widows, which was against the established norm. Guru Amar Das also condemned the wearing of the veil, and female infanticide.