A talk about USTAD...I was wondering how talented Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sahab was, a voice from heaven, that touched the heart of millions. I was watching a video of his ( which was possibly shot in US ) in which two sikh men were sitting just infront of Ustad. It was a state of trance in which these two people ( and others, ofcourse) were. The way ustad sang the qawali, it was mesmerizing. Even a person, who does not like music much, would be able to feel the magic of it. Not just the music, but the lyrics were spell bounding as well. One of the lines, I remember goes as follows:
Zindagi ke safar mein bahut door tak
jab koi dost aaya na humko nazar
humne ghabra ke tanhaiyo se sabaa
ek dushman ko khud humsafar kar liya
Zikra ek bewafaa aur sitamgar ka tha
aapka aisi baato se kya vaasta
aap to bewafaa aur sitamgar nahi
aapne kisliye muh udhar kar liya
I had a muslim friend of mine, whom I had a conversation with,about the sufi music. She had a good knowledge about the significance of these tracks and I learnt a very beautiful thing. Sufi music could be dedicated to 2 entities... One is GOD and the other is your beloved. The beauty is that the lyrics were written in such a manner that they could be dedicated to either of the two.
One of his tracks ( which I must have listened to, more than thousand times) shows the above mentioned fact:
Je tu rab nu manauna , pehle yaar nu manaa
rab man jaanda, yaar nu manauna aukha ae
Now here "yaar" could be your beloved or itself "rab" ( GOD).
That's the way beauty speaks for itself.
One more line that has depth more deeper than that of any deepest ocean:
Loki panj vele ( people five times)
saanu har vele ( ourselves everytime)
yaadan aaiya ( remember you )
How deep love can get for anyone? What intensity can it carry? The qawalis have a lot to say, than I can mention in this space.
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