Analysis of Hope For Him

Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)



O friend!  hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live,
  understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of
  deliverance in death?
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him
  because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru, have faith in the true
  Name!
Kabîr says: 'It is the Spirit of the quest which helps; I am the slave of this Spirit of the quest.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111111111 01111101010001 1111110110111 010001 1111101101111011 011111010 111111111 11111111001011 1111011111010 1001101111001 1 111110101011111011110101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 622
Words 125
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 468
Words per stanza (avg) 124
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic al-Kabīr which means 'The Great' – the 37th name of God in Islam. Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir Panth, a religious community that recognizes him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9,600,000. They are spread over north and central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, up from 843,171 in the 1901 census. His writings include Bijak, Sakhi Granth, Kabir Granthawali and Anurag Sagar. more…

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