GM Sheikh: "Kahat Kabir"

"Kahat Kabir" - Says Kabir

Visual interpretations after Kabir's verses
by
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh







1- (1997)

"Ya ghat bheetar soor chand hai
Ya ghat nau lakh taara"

"The sun and moon reside in this vessel
so do nine hundred thousand stars."
***

2- (2001)

"Ek achambha dekha re bhai
Thaada sinh charaave gai"

"Look brother, I saw a great wonder!
A lion was guarding a herd of cows!"
***

3- (2002)

(Kahat Kabir, Walled City)
"Kaajar keri kotadi kaajar ka hi kot.."

"The little hut of soot in a castle of soot.."

***
English by GMS

GM Sheikh: photo by Salman Masalha

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