Nanak, let others' goods[1] be to thee as swine to the Musalman and kine to the Hindu;[2]
Hindu and Musalman spiritual teachers will go bail for thee if thou eat not carrion.[3]
Thou shalt not go to heaven by lip service; it is by the practice of truth thou shalt be delivered.
Unlawful food will not become lawful by putting spices[4] therein.
Nanak, from false words only falsehood can be obtained.
There are five prayers, five times for prayer, and five names for them[5]—
The first should be truth, the second what is right, the third charity in God's name,
The fourth good intentions, the fifth the praise and glory of God.
If thou make good works the creed thou repeatest, thou shalt be a Musalman.
They who are false, O Nanak, shall only obtain what is altogether false.
The Qazi became astonished at being thus lectured. Prayers had become to him a matter of idle lip-repetition of Arabic texts, while his mind was occupied with his worldly affairs.
It was now the time for afternoon prayer. The whole company, including Nanak, went to the mosque. Up rose the Qazi and began the service. The Guru looked towards him and laughed in his face. When prayer was over, the Qazi complained to the Nawab of Nanak's conduct. The Guru said he had laughed because the Qazi's prayer was not
- ↑ Literally—rights, or what is due to thy neighbour.
- ↑ The Musalmāns abstain from the flesh of swine, and the Hindus from the flesh of kine.
- ↑ What is not thine own.
- ↑ This means that, if wealth be improperly obtained, a portion of it bestowed in alms will be no atonement.
- ↑ Prayers, or rather texts from the Qurān, are repeated by strict Musalmāns at dawn, at midday, in the afternoon, in the evening, and before going to sleep at night.
