A sufi qawall offering his devotional music at Data Saab’s in Lahore.
I, too, am a fan of the so-called ‘Sufi Rock‘, but I sometimes wonder that instead of triggering a broader interest in Sufi music, it might have distracted attention from the ‘real thing’.
(Original uploaded on Flickr.com by peterhessel).
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it is a very big mistak i have never seen like these things in my whole life
what is the (data saab ) ?????????
EXCELLENT…
Mast malang. Well
Well-captured moment!
My dad would never listen to Nusraft fateh Ali. He still doesn’t. He remembered when he was young and on religious occasions he would accompany his uncles to the local qubristans(graveyards) and listen to Qawwali mehfils at the mazaars. These were not elaborate affairs, but they would spend the entire night out, listening to qawwali from somebody nobody had heard much about. I am sad that I never got to have the same experience…But still – whenever Qawwali comes on, I can find myself tuning right into it.