Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Brahmins keep twenty-four fasts in the year, and the Qazis, Muslim judges, fast in the month of Ramadan.
They set aside eleven months and say the treasure is in that one month alone.
Every hour belongs to the One, and the treasure fills every month.
Kabir questions ritual accounting — one tradition's set of fasts, another's single holy month — the habit of sorting time into sacred slots and treating the rest as spiritually empty. He is not mocking anyone's fast; he is questioning the assumption that the treasure hides in one month and nowhere else. If the One fills all of existence, then no hour falls outside it. This critique lands on formalism in every tradition, including one's own.
How could an ordinary Tuesday feel just as sacred as a holiday?
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