Death is the law in this world, for all that is created must perish, all that is born must die. Kabir describes this world as a city of the dead and goes on to say that the sun, the moon and the earth, in fact the entire physical world is subject to destruction and will cease to exist one day. Further, the law of death covers even the astral and causal regions, including all the gods, goddesses, angels and deities that live there. At the time of dissolution they will all perish. In this city of death the soul takes birth and dies again and again. The Name of the Lord, the divine Word, is the only thing that is eternal and deathless, that is not subject to decay, disease and death. Kabir tells the seeker to realize the Truth through Naam and be freed from this realm of death.

Friends, this is the city of the dead.
Holy preceptors have died here,
Incarnations have died,
So too have died adept yogis.

This is the city of the dead, my friends.

Mighty rulers have died,
And the ones over whom they ruled;
Great physicians have died,
And the ones they healed.

This is the city of the dead, my friends.

The moon will die,
So will die the sun;
The earth will die,
So will die the sky.
Even the strong headmen
Of the fourteen forts will die;
Then who can hope to survive?

This is the city of the dead, my friends.

The nine are dead,
The ten are dead,
So too are dead the eighty-eight thousand;
The three hundred and thirty-three million are dead,
Such is the infallible noose of death.

This is the city of the dead, my friends.

The Name of the Nameless One
Lives and will ever live,
But all that is created will die,

For this is the city of the dead, my friends.

Says Kabir: Realize the Truth, friends,
Do not die again and again in delusion.

Satt Kabir, Shabd 318
Sādho ih murde kā gām