✓ Source verified“बुरा जो देखन मैं चला बुरा न मिलिया कोय। जो दिल खोजौं आपना मुझसा बुरा न कोय॥”
English meaning: I went looking for faults in others and found none; when I searched my own heart, I found the fault within myself.
Kabir
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४६ · View source
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✓ Source verified“जहाँ दया तह धर्म है जहाँ लोभ तह पाप। जहाँ क्रोध तह काल है जहाँ छिमा तहाँ आप॥”
English meaning: Where compassion lives, there is righteousness; where greed lives, there is wrongdoing. Anger brings ruin, while forgiveness reveals the divine.
Kabir
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४५ · View source
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✓ Source verified“काल करै सो आज कर आज करैं सो अब्ब। पलमें परलै होयगी बहुरि करैगा कब्ब॥”
English meaning: Do today what you would leave for tomorrow, and do now what you would leave for today; everything may change in a moment.
Kabir
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १९ · View source
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✓ Source verified“माटी कहै कुम्हार को तू क्या रूँदै मोहिं। इक दिन ऐसा होइगा मैं रूँदूँगी तोहि॥”
English meaning: The clay asks the potter why he tramples it; one day, it says, the earth will cover him.
Kabir
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा २३ · View source
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✓ Source verified“रहिमन धागा प्रेम को, मति तोरो चटकाइ। टूटे से फिरि ना मिलै, मिले गाँठि परि जाइ॥”
English meaning: Do not snap the delicate thread of love; once broken it may be joined, but a knot will remain.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा १८८ · View source
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✓ Source verified“तरुवर फल नहिं खात हैं, सरवर पियहिं न पान। कहि रहीम पर काज हित, सम्पति सँचाहिं सुजान॥”
English meaning: Trees do not eat their own fruit and reservoirs do not drink their own water; the wise gather resources to serve others.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा ८६ · View source
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✓ Source verified“देनहार कोउ और है, भेजत सो दिन-रैन। लोग भरम हम पै धरैं, याते नीचे नैन॥”
English meaning: The true giver is another, sending gifts day and night; people mistakenly credit me, so I lower my eyes.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा ९५ · View source
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✓ Source verified“रहिमन देखि बड़ेन को, लघु न दीजिए डारि। जहाँ काम आवै सुई, कहा करै तरवारि॥”
English meaning: Do not discard the small when you see the great; where a needle is needed, a sword cannot do its work.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा १७४ · View source
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✓ Source verified“रहिमन पानी राखिए, बिन पानी सब सून। पानी गए न ऊबरै, मोती मानुष चून॥”
English meaning: Preserve water—and, figuratively, dignity—for without it all is empty; pearls, people and lime cannot recover once their essential moisture is gone.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा १७९ · View source
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✓ Source verified“मथत-मथत माखन रहै, दही-मही बिलगाइ। रहिमन सोई मीत है, भीर परे ठहराइ॥”
English meaning: As butter remains after churning separates it from buttermilk, a true friend is the one who remains in adversity.
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा १३१ · View source
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