The Sound of the whirling dervishes

Sufi music or mystical music is an expression of love, devotion and connection with God. It often throws listeners into the realm of ecstasy. Though various in form, these acts of expressions are common in the peaceful search for the Divine and breed a mystical unity among different schools of thoughts. Subcontinent (India and Pakistan) [...]

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Na Man Behooda Girde- Rumi

I’m addicted to Nusrat’s voice and inspired by Rumi’s poetry. Nusrat’s piercing voice and Rumi’s mystical poetry have an amazing combination to mesmerize the senses. Rumi’s poetry flows like a rippling stream and finds a way to pierce into your heart and makes you move within the inner most sanctum. His words have to be [...]

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Ma’n Kuntu Mawlahu, Faha’za Ali’un Mawla

Ma’n Kuntu Mawlahu, Faha’za Ali’un Mawla  [ He of whom I am the Mawla, of him Ali is also the Mawla]- Hadith Dr Allama Iqbal says, “O’ Allah, what an exalted position Imam Husayn possessed, as his illustrious father (Imam Ali) was the first letter of the Qur’an! A tradition says that Imam Ali said, [...]

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