Editing Kabir (section)

===Influence of Islam===
Lorenzen in his review of Kabir's philosophy and poetry writes, "the extent to which Kabir borrowed elements from Islam is controversial. Many recent scholars have argued that he simply rejected Islam and took almost all his ideas and beliefs from the Hindu tradition. Contemporary Kabir Panth sadhus make roughly the same argument. Most of the vocabulary used in his songs and verses are borrowed directly from the Hindu tradition. 
Some scholars state that the sexual imagery in some of Kabir's poems reflect a mystic Sufi Islam influence, wherein Kabir inverts the traditional Sufi representation of a God-woman and devotee-man longing for a union, and instead uses the imagery of Lord-husband and devotee-bride.{{sfn|Schomer|McLeod|1987|pp=177–178|ps= with footnote 26}} Other scholars, in contrast, state that it is unclear if Sufi ideas influenced Bhakti sants like Kabir or it was vice versa, suggesting that they probably co-developed through mutual interaction.{{sfn|Larson|1995|p=116}}

Kabir left Islam, states Ronald McGregor.{{sfn|McGregor|1984|p=47}} Kabir, nevertheless, criticized practices such as killing and eating cows by Muslims, in a manner Hindus criticized those practices:

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|<poem>
We have searched the ''turaki Dharam'' ([[Delhi Sultanate|Turk's religion]], Islam), these teachers throw many thunderbolts,
Recklessly they display boundless pride while explaining their own aims, they kill cows.
How can they kill the mother, whose milk they drink like that of a wet nurse?
The young and the old drink milk pudding, but these fools eat the cow's body.
These morons know nothing, they wander about in ignorance,
Without looking into one's heart, how can one reach paradise?
</poem>
|Kabir, Ramaini 1|Translated by [[David Lorenzen]]{{sfn | Lorenzen | Muñoz | 2012 | p=27}} }}