Twilight of the Sultanate c18.s1.17

c18.s1.17

Kabīr took to his father's profession of weaving. He wove his cloth and while he did so he sang his ideas in songs. Some songs he wove in perfect poetry as he did his cloth, but most of the others are broken in language and faulty in grammar. He never used paper or pen, but communicated his compositions orally. The headquarters of the Kabīr Panthīs at Kabīr Chaura in Varanasi possess a collection of twenty-one books of the master. The language of these works is simple. He was no finished philosopher but only a mystic poet. He preached his message in the form of Sakhīs, Shabdas, Ramāinīs, etc. Sakhīs mostly deal with social conduct; while Shabdas and Ramāinīs elaborate religious and philosophical principles, though there is no deliberate attempt at such separation.¹³