Kabīr | Isaac Ezekiel (essay date 1966)
Isaac Ezekiel (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: Ezekiel, Isaac. “Literary Style.” In Kabir: The Great Mystic, pp. 62-74. Punjab, India: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1966.
[In the following essay, Ezekiel explores the daring simplicity of Kabīr's style and the directness and vigor with which he set forth his unorthodox ideas.]
Both Muslims and Hindus will go to hell, With Qazis and Brahmins leading them there. Both deserve nothing better.
Kabir
There is probably no Indian author whose verses are more on the lips of North India than those of Kabir, unless it be Tulsidas.
Rev. Keay
No Indian Saint has displayed such strength of language, such vitality, such ruggedness and down-to-earth assertion of facts and views as the weaver Saint of Benaras. This serene and saintly personality breathes scorn and disgust, uses frowns and sneers, generates thunder and wrath—all so contrary to his...
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