Kabir worked as a weaver in Benares. He had no formal teacher but a spiritual father in Ramananda and a voice entirely his own. His couplets (dohas) and songs ridicule the religious hypocrisies of both Hindu and Muslim establishments while pointing directly at what both traditions finally point toward.
“If you have not lived through something, it is not true.”
His verses were included in the Sikh guru-granth-sahib and remain sung, quoted, and painted on the walls of homes across South Asia.