Faith in the Master and the Lord is an essential part of devotion. Doubt and devotion, love and hesitation, do not go together. In these couplets Kabir emphasizes the importance of faith in its three aspects. First, the devotee must have faith that the Lord, who has created all beings, has arranged also for their sustenance and is looking after them, providing for all their needs. Man needs clothes to cover his body, a roof over his head, and food to maintain him. Kabir says that the Lord provides these facilities even to beasts, birds and insects, so why should He forget man? The devotee should not allow these worries to enter his mind.

Second, whatever man has to undergo during his life in the world has already been ordained. His pralabdh karma or the fate with which he is born is changeless. No efforts, pleading or planning can change even a comma in what is written in his destiny. He should have faith in the immutability of his destiny and accept it with a composed and carefree mind.

Third, the devotee should have faith that the practice of Naam will never go to waste, nothing can stop it from bearing fruit in the course of time. He should also know that a devotee of Naam has nothing to do with the negative power and cannot be sent to hell, for Naam will always keep him linked with the Supreme Being and never let him go into lower regions or lower species. Kabir says that firm faith in the Master and the Lord is the outcome of the practice of Naam, but this faith also helps to strengthen the devotee's love for the Lord and enables him to attend to his devotion with greater earnestness.

Kabir, why need I worry,
What can my worrying achieve?
My Lord feels concern for me,
I have no worries of my own.

K.S.S., p. 73:1

Do not be anxious,
Cast away your cares,
The Beloved is all-powerful;
Do beasts, birds and insects
Have money in their pockets?

K.G., p. 45:9

K.G., p. 45:5

Why do you keep crying
'I'm hungry, I'm hungry'?
Why clamour about it to the world?
He who has fashioned the jar
And given it a mouth,
Is also able to fill it.

K.G., p. 45:2

Even for the dead He provides
Dress, sheet and fire;
If a man, alive, worries —
That's his bad luck!

Satt Kabir, p. 338:697

Your fate the Lord has written,
No alterations can now be made;
Not a dot can be added,
Not a point removed,
Though a million efforts
You make.

K.G., p. 45:8

Plow your field with the Lord's Name,
Sow the seed of devotion;
Even if there is a drought
Till the end of the world,
The seed will not fail to sprout
Nor fail to yield a rich crop.

K.G., p. 45:4

My heart is absorbed in the Lord's Name,
My dealings with Yama are broken;
I have firm faith in my Lord,
I know his slave cannot
Ever be sent to hell.

K.G., p. 46:11

What are you afraid of, O Kabir?
The protecting hand of the Lord
Is always over your head;
When you are given a seat on an elephant,
Do not be perturbed by the dogs
That bark.

K.G., p. 46:12

My body is a flowering shrub
Filled with the fragrance of desires,
My mind hovers like a bumblebee;
When I watered the plant
With the ambrosia of Naam,
It bore the fruit of divine faith.

K.G., p. 46:16

Kabir, when 'me' and 'mine' dissolved
I became free of all bonds
And gained true faith in my Lord;
Now none else exists for me:
I long, Beloved, only for Thee.

K.G., p. 46:17

You sing His praises
In melodious tunes,
But without true devotion
The chains of doubt will not break;
Without faith in the Lord
All efforts are like
Gathering chaff.

K.G., p. 46:19

The Master is always with him
Whose heart is filled with faith;
A million ways Kal may adopt,
He'll not waver from the path.

K.S.S., p. 74:9

He who adores the Master
With faith deep and unshaken,
From iron he turns into gold;
He is enabled to practice Naam
With love and devotion,
He becomes free
From sorrow and joy.

K.S.S., p. 74:16