❝O Rahim, preserve your honor (water), without honor all is barren,
Without water, pearl, man, and lime — all are worthless.❞
Without water, pearl, man, and lime — all are worthless.❞
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🔗रहिमन पानी राखिए, बिन पानी सब सून, — Rahim Das | Dohe Shayari
About Rahim Das
Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana, known as Rahim, was a commander, administrator, and poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar's court. He was one of the nine gems (Navaratnas) of Akbar's court. His dohe carry profound wisdom about life, relationships, and human nature.
Born: Lahore, Pakistan · Era: 1556–1627 · Specialty: Dohe, Wisdom Poetry
📚 Famous Works
Rahim Doha ShatakaShringara ShatakaRahim Kavitavali
About Dohe Shayari
Dohe are a centuries-old form of two-line couplets carrying practical, moral wisdom — most famously from Kabir Das and Rahim Das, given here with meaning in both Hindi and English. They are often quoted while teaching, counseling, or making a sharp point in conversation.
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❝O Rahim, break not the thread of love with a snap,
For once it breaks, it joins not without a gap.
Even when joined, a knot remains to tell,
Of the break that once occurred so well.❞
For once it breaks, it joins not without a gap.
Even when joined, a knot remains to tell,
Of the break that once occurred so well.❞
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🔗❝Says Rahim, poor is the man who begs his friends for aid,
What is truly needed is one who gives love unstayed.❞
What is truly needed is one who gives love unstayed.❞
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🔗❝Focus on one and all will succeed; try for all and all will be lost,
O Rahim, water the root — it will flower and fruit at any cost.❞
O Rahim, water the root — it will flower and fruit at any cost.❞
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🔗❝O Rahim, one who lamps around salt has no real understanding of worth,
Like fish in the water that lives yet dies thirsty on earth.❞
Like fish in the water that lives yet dies thirsty on earth.❞
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🔗❝Says Rahim, how can a ber and a banana tree get along —
One sways for its own fruit while the other's limbs grow wrong.❞
One sways for its own fruit while the other's limbs grow wrong.❞
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❝A true friend is one who stays in times of pain,
Who holds your hand in joy and grief again.
Never let go of such a friend so dear,
This is life's most precious treasure clear.❞
Who holds your hand in joy and grief again.
Never let go of such a friend so dear,
This is life's most precious treasure clear.❞
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❝Guru and God both stand before me, whose feet shall I touch first,
I sacrifice myself to my Guru, who revealed God to me.❞
I sacrifice myself to my Guru, who revealed God to me.❞
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❝Reading scriptures upon scriptures the world has died, none grew wise,
whoever reads the two-and-a-half letters of love becomes truly wise.❞
whoever reads the two-and-a-half letters of love becomes truly wise.❞
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❝Do tomorrow's task today, and today's task now,
if ruin comes in an instant, when else will you do it.❞
if ruin comes in an instant, when else will you do it.❞
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❝The thread of love, O Rahim, do not snap it apart,
once broken it joins not again, and if it does, a knot remains.❞
once broken it joins not again, and if it does, a knot remains.❞
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❝Seeing the turning millstone, Kabir wept aloud,
between its two stones nothing whole remains.❞
between its two stones nothing whole remains.❞
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❝Preserve your water, O Rahim, without it all is empty,
once water is lost none can be restored - pearl, man, or flour.❞
once water is lost none can be restored - pearl, man, or flour.❞
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❝Tulsi, in this world people are of every kind,
greet all with a smile, for it is like the meeting of river and boat.❞
greet all with a smile, for it is like the meeting of river and boat.❞
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🔗❝If I made ink of all seven seas and pens of every forest tree,
And turned the whole earth into paper, still God's glory could not be written.❞
And turned the whole earth into paper, still God's glory could not be written.❞
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