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The Word

Kabir, Kabir poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Kabir
(15th Century) Timeline

English version by
Mahmood Jamal

Original Language
Hindi

Muslim / Sufi
Yoga / Hindu
15th Century

Find the word, understand the word,
Depend on the word;
The word is heaven and space, the word the earth,
The word the universe.
The word is in our ears, the word is on our tongues,
The word the idol.
The word is the holy book, the word is harmony,
The word is music.
The word is magic, the word the Guru.
The word is the body, the word is the spirit, the word is being,
The word Not-being.
The word is man, the word is woman,
The Worshipped Great.
The word is the seen and unseen, the word is the existent
And the non-existent.
Know the word, says Kabir,
The word is All-powerful.

 

 

-- from Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal

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The Bijak of Kabir, Translated by Linda Hess / Translated by Shukdeo Singh
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four fo the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Translated by Robert Bly
Kabir: The Weaver's Songs, by Kabir / Translated by Vinay Dharwadker

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