#sufi music!!
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literally any time i listen to coke studio
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There's something undeniably special about Kailash Kher's music, particularly the way he captures the essence of a woman's perspective in love. Listening to his songs feels like being truly seen and understood. The vulnerability, the intensity, the all-encompassing joy that comes with loving someone completely.
Thank you, Kailash Kher
You’re healing countless hearts:)
#kailash kher#teri deewani#desiblr#desi tag#desi tumblr#desi#sufi#sufi music#kailasa#bollywood songs#desi aesthetic#love#women in love#yearning
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South Asian Music Recs 2 fast 2 furious
India (pt 2)
Soulmate (genre: blues rock): formed in 2003, based in shillong. they mostly sing in english. i would recommend love you, voodoo woman, shillong (sier lapalang)
Indian Ocean (genre: multi. mostly jazz and rock and folk fusion): formed in 1990, based in delhi. they sing in multiple languages. i would recommend bagh aayore, shoonya, jaadu maaya
Moheener Ghoraguli (genre: multi; rock (folk and blues), jazz, baul, american folk): formed in 1975, based in kolkata. they sang in bengali. i would recommend ei shomoy amar shomoy, amar priyo caffe, sei phuler daal
chandrabindoo (genre: rock, multi): formed in 1998, based in kolkata. they sing in bengali. famous music composer pritam was a part of chandrabindoo! recommended: hridoy, geet gobindo, ami amar mone
Pakistan:
Junoon (genre: sufi rock): formed in 1990, based in lahore and nyc. multilingual. i would recommend: sayonee, yaar bina, azadi
Entity Paradigm (genre: rock): formed in 2000 (but they kept breaking up and rebanding every few years. also entity and paradigm used to be separate bands till they joined. yes this is the one with fawad khan. this is very mainstream. (<- girl saying this as if half the others are Not) anyway), based in lahore. they mostly sing in urdu afaik. recommended: hamesha, waqt, fitrat
Mekaal Hasan Band (genre: sufi rock, alternative rock): formed in 2001, based in lahore. they are multilingual, but mostly urdu afaik. recommended: raba, ranjha, ghunghat
noori: formed in 1996, based in lahore. multilingual. recommended: yariyaan, meray log, dil ki qasam
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#rest of south asia prolly dropping soon yahoo (in parts. duh)!#pakistanis look away rq this is such a basic bitch list of your rock groups. i can do better. i promise. please drop recs i would love tjem#music#india#pakistan#desiblr#rock music#fusion music#sufi music#indian music#pakistani music#folk music#english music#bengali music#music recs#yeah bro idk what else 2 tag this w
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how some songs be getting me like
#desiblr#desi aesthetic#random rants#desi shit posting#desi stuff#desi tumblr#love#bollywood songs#music#songs#sufi#soul#for real
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some notes on sufism
The other day I went to the Harvard Divinity School Muslims iftar (the meal that breaks the fast during Ramadan), which was followed by a concert of Turkish music that is traditionally performed in Sufi lodges in Istambul. Before the music began, the professor I’ve been auditing Islamic literature classes with read some verses from Rumi’s Masnavi and offered a meditation on fasting through an interpretation of the lines: “If you have closed this mouth, another mouth is opened, which becomes an eater of the morsels of mysteries.” That is the nature of mystical knowledge—gnosis (or maʿrifa) is not understood intellectually, but tasted (dhawq). The closing of the bodily mouth is an opening of the spiritual mouth. He asked us to listen to the music with the inner heart.
I went with my friend S, who has been nudging me toward conversion. I’ve been allergic to religion most of my life because I’m not really much of a joiner. I distinctly remember being in (Catholic) Sunday School as a child and thinking to myself: This sounds fake to me. As in, made-up, irrational. The people who treated the fanciful stories like fact seemed like crackpots to me, even to my child-mind. I don’t think I ever believed in Santa either—I guess my disposition was innately skeptical; perhaps that contributed to my identification with anarchism from when I was 13 or 14. Yet at the same time, my feeling for the invisible, for the world of the dead, was always quite strong, even when it was unstitched from a belief system. As a kid I would wander the house alone at night, thinking I could hear my dead parakeet chirping from a shoebox in the garage.
I hated Sunday School. While I was always good at school-school (at least when I was a child, before I became an incorrigible truant), I was terrible at Sunday School. Because it seemed like hocus-pocus to me, none of it stuck. My classmates had internalized all the stories I thought were outlandish. During mass I would think exclusively about donuts, the ones we would buy from the ladies who would sell them as a fundraiser. I’ve thought about returning to Catholicism, but sadly, after the post-1970s political realignment in the US, all the leftist Catholics (the Marxists who loathed the Vietnam War and exposed the FBI’s COINTELPRO) are gone. As much as I love reading Catholic mystics (St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross, Angela of Foligno, Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, and others), Christian mysticism is more individualist than Islamic mysticism—asceticism and separation from the group is the way to commune with God, while Islamic mysticism is rooted in communal practices like sama (singing, dancing, reciting poetry, playing/listening to music) and dhikr (communal prayer for the remembrance of God). While Christian mysticism bears the imprint of the Neoplatonist trajectory of ascent, for Sufism, the trajectory is shaped like a paisley. After fana (annihilation of the ego/union with God/dying before you die), there is baqaa or subsistence, a return of sorts.
I also much prefer the Islamic orientation to the created world than the Christian one, for in Islam, everything in creation can be understood as the breath or speech of God. The Hadith on which Sufi cosmology is based reads, “I was a hidden Treasure and Loved to be known, so I created the world that I might be known.” All of creation is a mirror to reflect God (this is why you must polish the rust from your heart, for the human heart can manifest all the names and qualities of God). In the Islamic mystical tradition there is an affirmation of the created world even though God and creation are not the same (as is the case in Pantheism). Everything has ontology. Nothing has ontology. The Sufi metaphysicians ask us to see with two eyes. The drop is not the ocean at the same time it cannot be separated from the ocean.
7 years ago I read Reza Aslan’s God: A Human History. After sampling the platter of world religions I joked to myself, Hmmm, if I had to pick the one I vibe with most, I guess it would be Sufism (Islamic mysticism). I didn’t know anything about Sufism other than the Rumi and Hafez poetry I read as a teenager, but the way Aslan described Ibn ‘Arabi’s concept of 'wahadat al-wujud' (or Unity of Being) reminded me of Spinozism. I guess what I’m trying to say is...I just think Sufi metaphysics is...right. Or, it speaks to how I tend to think about reality. It’s not something I can prove (that I don’t exist, while at the same time I am part of the ALL that is God), but it makes the most sense to me.
In the Sufi literature class, S jokes to me: “You’re the only non-Muslim in this class.” The same was probably true at the iftar + concert. S points to someone from the class: “The Maoist is a recent convert. This is their first time fasting for Ramadan.” “Is [our professor] fasting?” “Of course. I saw him at the iftar last night and talked to him about translation. I told him it’s ghastly to try to fit Persian verse into an English rhyme scheme. He agreed with me.” (We are clearly partisans of blank verse translations… yet so much of what’s out there has been poorly translated or not translated at all.)
Much of the lyrics sung with the gorgeous music were verses written by the great Turkish-language Sufi poet and mystic Yunus Emre ("the Dante of Turkey," I whispered to S). S was ecstatic listening to the haunting ney (a kind of flute). We just so happened to be sitting in the same row as the professor. I tapped S and whispered that it looked like he was really enjoying the music. He was smiling with his eyes closed and swaying his head from side to side. He looked like he was having...a profound experience. This prof usually has what I guess you’d call ‘resting bitch face’ (which I always found funny because it runs counter to his sweet and gentle personality). But not at the concert. Pure bliss was painted on his face. It was then that it dawned on me that Sufism, for him, was probably something more than a scholarly interest. I thought about what it must have been like to discover something so beautiful and profound, and to know, in that moment, that your life will be changed forever—you might go off to Iran and devote your entire life to studying medieval texts.
Of course this Ramadan I am thinking continuously about the genocide in Gaza, how an entire population is being starved to death by the sadistic leaders of Israel, how terrible it must be to be bombed and shot at during the holy month, or to break your fast with boiled grass and animal feed. I feel truly ashamed to come from a country that is complicit in this violence. I hope everyone continues to apply pressure to end this war—it feels hopeless now, but it is making a difference.
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Sufi Love Through the Lens of Bollywood Music
Bollywood music is heavily influenced by Sufism and Sufi notions of love permeate the lyrics of most romantic songs. I want to explore some important Sufi concepts and how they manifest themselves in these songs and within the context of these movies.
Chand Sifarish from the movie Fanaa
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"Zid hain ab toh hain khud ko mitaana, hona hain tujh mein fanaa"
trans: "I insist on ridding myself of me, I want to annihilate myself in you"
Bollywood romantic songs often emphasize on yearning, seeking and longing for the lover and Sufi poetry which speaks of a soul's yearning to unite with God serves as a useful metaphor to speak of the same. The intense, maddening, spiritual kind of love, although seldom portrayed accurately on screen is ever present in song lyrics. The concept of "twin flames" has been popular in the West for the last couple of years and is by and large, very misunderstood. From a purely spiritual perspective, The Lover and The Beloved are in each other all along (similar to the Jungian concept of anima & animus but slightly different) and yearn to unite with each other. In order for union to be possible however, one must first destroy their "ego" which they call "self".
2. Raabta from Agent Vinod
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"Tera milna hai us rab ka ishaara maanu, Mujhko banaya tere jaise hi kisi ke liye"
trans: Meeting you was a signal from God, that he had made me for someone like you
There is a lot of emphasis on the soul's innate knowing and its longing for love which is its longing for God and how seeking union with the Beloved is the inner knowing to realise one's God nature and unite with God in Sufism. This song captures that feeling of things being "destined" and how God has always guided your union.
3. Katra Katra from Alone
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"Khud se khaali ho jaoon, aaja tujhse bhar jaoon. Tinka, tinka jal jaoon. Aise jala do"
trans: "let me empty myself, let me fill myself with you. i want to burn up, twig by twig and you burn me."
This is a very erotic song and speaks of love in a very carnal way. However, this idea of dissolving yourself in your lover is a very Sufi one. What is love, if not absolute submersion in the object of your desire?
4. Satrangi Re from Dil Se
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This movie itself is very deeply spiritual and I suggest watching it. However this song beautifully captures the 7 stages of love and two people going through it, in a very poetic and profound way. Go watch it!!
Some poignant lyrics include:
Dil ka saaya humsaaya
trans: The shadow of my heart is your shadow
(In my post about twin flames, I had touched upon this but I'll make another post about how the Jungian concept of shadow work and integrating your shadow is to understand your twin and merge them within your consciousness)
Koi noor hai tu (Are you a light?)
Kyun door hai tu (Why are you so far away)
Jab paas hai tu (When you're near me)
Ehsaas hai tu (Then you're a feeling itself)
Koi khwaab hai ya parchai hai (Are you a dream or a shadow?)
These lines alone capture the bittersweet, all consuming, indescribable and maddening feelings that a twin triggers in us.
I also highly suggest reading the lyric translation of this song as a whole because it captures the twin flame experience so exquisitely.
5. Tujh mein rab dikhta hai from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
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"Tujh mein rab dikhta hai
Yaara main kya karoon
Sajde sar jhukta hai
Yaara main kya karoon"
trans: I see God in you my beloved, what do I do? My head bows down in worship to you my beloved, what do I do?
in my post I had mentioned the 7 stages of love, one of which is worship for the beloved. this song beautifully captures that feeling, of being absolutely devoted and enraptured by the beloved, that nothing less than worship could equate to how you feel for them. its beyond love, beyond admiration, its a holy kind of emotion, its devotion.
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i wanted to keep this post brief so that it can be an accessible entry point but lmk if you want more posts of this kind!! i hope this was interesting💛💛
#Youtube#sufism#sufi quotes#sufi poetry#sufi wisdom#sufi#bollywood#bollywood movies#twin flames#soulmates#love#retro bollywood#bollywood icons#music#bollywood music#astroblr#astro community
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Master Musicians Of Jajouka – Tribe Ahl Serif: Master Musicians Of Jajouka
Musicians have been making fucking loud music for a long long time,.
Get it from my Google Drive HERE
#master musicians of jajouka#the master musicians of jajouka#world music#experimental#sufi#sufi music
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Saara music, sab singers aik taraf aur ABIDA PARVEEN aik taraf.
Literally nothing can match her voice.
💜🩷💜
#abida parveen#sufi#sufi music#music#desi tumblr#just desi things#desi larki#life of a desi girl#desi academia#desi culture#urdu stuff#music aesthetic#urdu aesthetic#pakistani aesthetics#desi songs#sufi songs#desi life#desi post
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#music#polls#kannalane#kehna hi kya#k s chithra#a r rehman#sujatha mohan#ganga#reshmi#qawwali#sufi music#arvind swamy#shekhar narayanan pillai#manisha koirala#shaila banu#nassar#narayanan pillai#kitty#basheer#desiblr#india
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Remembrance of Light: Zikr Nur-I-Muhammad
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#Remembrance of Light: Zikr Nur-I-Muhammad#Sufi Music#Zikr#The Music of the Soul#Remembrance of God#Dhikr#Youtube
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Electric Sufi - O Ignis Spiritus - an electronic & Middle Eastern interpretation of Hildegard von Bingen
Electric Sufi are Sheffield based Professor of Music and Sound Archaeologist at Huddersfield University Rupert Till, Manchester based singer-songwriter and environmental activist Sarah Yaseen and Nottingham based multi-instrumentalist / University lecturer Mina Mikhael Salama.
With its bed of electronic drones and ebow guitar setting the scene, Electric Sufi’s interpretation of O Ignis Spiritus, a mediaeval chant by St. Hildegarde, is a mesmeric performance that sees a Muslim Sufi woman singing ancient Christian music written by a Christian woman. This embodies their mission of bringing traditions and ideologies together in a harmonious and creative way to precipitate solving the biggest issues of the day like climate change and societal division.
Utilising tuning based on the Solfeggio Frequencies, an ancient six-tone scale said by some to be incorporated in Gregorian chants and other sacred music, some research suggests that the pitch 528Hz on which the song is centred has healing properties and can help with relaxation.
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mohabbat - hafeez hoshiarpuri
#getting over him lol#arooj aftab#desiblr#song lyrics#heartbreak#yearning#urdu songs#music#sufi#bengali#hindi#spotify#genius#urdu#hafiz hoshiarpuri
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Taken from Essential Musical Intelligence: Using Music as Your Path to Healing, Creativity, and Radiant Wholeness by Louise Montello
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I don't know why but sufi song and melodies playing on banjo in southern american songs give me this peace to my heart. It feels like my soul has been soothed.
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Recorded this snippet of the Al-Firdaus Ensemble, a Sufi music group influenced by the great Muslim poets of Al-Andalus, which I saw perform tonight for the Mawlid al-Nabi (birthday of the Prophet). Every time this singer opened his mouth to sing my eyes started welling up with tears… his voice was so beautiful. It touched me the same way Jeff Buckley’s soaring voice touches me.
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"Sufi and Soul" Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music
#soul music#oldies#vinyl#funk music#music playlist#soul music playlist#old school music#ashford and simpson#sufi and soul
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