Twilight of the Sultanate c18.s1.28

c18.s1.28

God being Absolute, belief in idols and Avatārs is gross superstition. “The images are all lifeless, they cannot speak: I know for I have cried aloud to them.” So is also the case with temples and mosques, K’abā and Kashi. Like Nāmdēva, Kabīr declares: “The Hindu resorts to the temple and the Musalman to the mosque, but Kabīr goes to the place where both are known.²⁰ Kabīr fails to understand how there can be one God for Hindus and another for Muslims. “If you say that I am a Hindu then it is not true, nor am I a Musalman … Mecca has verily become Kashi, and Rām has become Rahīm.”²¹