A departure from most compilations of Kabir, this volume begins with an introduction primarily focusing on Kabir as a poet, judging and appreciating the Persian Sufi on the canons of English literary criticism. The selection of dohas from the Sakhi that follows was chosen on the basis of Kabir's proverbial and worldly wisdom; gift for analogies; richness of imagery; recurrent theme of death; gift for satire; and rhetorical powers.