Attributed to Kabir

«Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers.»
Misattributed

Verdict

It is not in Kabir's work

Poem IV of *Songs of Kabir* (Tagore, 1915), widely circulated; like most of the selection, its attribution to Kabir is not proven according to Mishra's critique.

Source: «Kabir». Wikipedia en inglés (leyendas de nacimiento y persecución según Lorenzen; Dabestan-e Mazaheb; recensiones; crítica de V. C. Mishra, «Two Truths Are Told: Tagore's Kabir», en K. Schomer y W. H. McLeod (eds.), The Sants, 1987, pp. 167–180; Kabir Panth).

What they did say

Verified words of Kabir

«If God be within the mosque, then to whom does this world belong? If Ram be within the image which you find upon your pilgrimage, then who is there to know what happens without?»
Guru Granth Sahib, Prabhati, p. 1349 (texto gurmukhi según BaniDB); trad. española propia; versión inglesa de Tagore (*Songs of Kabir*, 1915, poema LXIX, uno de los seis que V. C. Mishra tiene por auténticos).
«Hari dwells in the south and Allah has his abode in the west: search in your heart, search in the depths of the heart; that is his place and his abode.»
Guru Granth Sahib, Prabhati, p. 1349 (texto según BaniDB); traducciones propias.
«First Allah created the light; all beings are the work of his power. From one light the whole world sprang: who then is good and who is bad?»
Guru Granth Sahib, Prabhati, p. 1349 (texto según BaniDB); traducciones propias.

All verified quotes