Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Water pots for washing before prayer, the call to prayer, prayers and prayer mats are everywhere, and the Gardener of the world appears dressed in blue.
In every home, everyone greets each other the Muslim way. Your speech has changed, O people.
The outside of the world can change, and the same One stays inside it.
Guru Nanak looks honestly at his world. Muslim ways of praying are now everywhere: the call to prayer, the prayer mats, the water pots for washing before prayer. New greetings pass from house to house. Blue robes are the new fashion.
And yet, even in the blue robes, it is banvaaree who appears. Banvaaree means the Gardener of the world, another name for the One. Think of a school that gets new uniforms. The clothes change, but the students inside them are the same. The tone is not a complaint. It is recognition: the same One wears every dress and answers in every language.
When you hear people praying in a way that is new to you, what would it be like to hear the same One behind it?
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