It’s hard to describe, but it can be quite visceral. Eventually more and more people lose themselves in the music and poetry, and it becomes quite an experience. Clapping along attunes them to the rhythm and tempo. The audience builds momentum at the same pace. Then they start to build up, move faster and faster as they go along. Almost all qawwalis start slowly, with a few lines of slow recitation. There’s a tense, electric atmosphere among the crowd.
TAJDAR E HARAM SABRI FULL
This is more common at a dargah than in a theater performance.Īs you can imagine, the full experience of a qawwali session consists of much more than just the words and music. Sometimes people may get carried away and start dancing. Or to express enthusiasm (words equivalent to “bravo!” or something like that). It’s not unusual for the audience to clap along to the rhythm of the song.
Qawwalis often involve a lot of audience participation. The Urdu phrase for this is “ haal aana“, which means to lose oneself in the music and lose awareness of distractions. Repetition is a feature of many religious chants, where it can induce a trance-like state where you may feel more spiritual. Remember, a qawwali isn’t just a piece of music, it has a religious purpose. The same line may be repeated 3-4 times by the same person or by different people. There is a lot of repetition in a qawwali. 
A single person would get tired, so qawwals usually sing as a group, with two or more alternating lead singers and several support vocals. 15 minutes or half an hour are not unusual, and there are some that are over an hour long.
The people singing qawwalis are knowns as qawwals. If you’re not used to qawwalis, here are a couple things you might notice when you hear them: These qawwalis are sung in traditional order, starting with the hamd, moving on to one or more na’ats, and progressing down the list. Shia gatherings may also include a Marsiya, which is a lament over a death, usually referring to the death of Imam Hussain’s family at the Battle of Karbala. Manqabat: a song in praise of Imam Ali, or sometimes in praise of some Sufi saint. Qawwalis typically have a specific type of content, and are sung in a specific order. Qawwalis are typically performed at the tombs ( dargah) of Sufi saints, mostly in India and Pakistan, and to some extent in Bangladesh as well. Different orders of Sufis follow different styles of dhikr, including the “whirling dervishes” who express dhikr in dance, and the qawwali singers of south Asia who express it in music. Sufis have a form of worship called dhikr, or remembrance, which often consists of repetitive content, for example, repeating certain sentences or enumerating the names of God, sometimes counting along on a string of beads like Catholics do. The qawwali is a uniquely south Asian form of devotional music commonly associated with the Sufi sect of Islam. Rehmatun bar haali maa ya Rehmat-ul lil aalamein. Muzlam-e-choon man na-baashad dar tamaami ummatat Roo ba-khak uftada-um, az sharm-e-isiyan dar zameen. Ya Rasool Allah ba-ahwaal-e-kharab-e-maa-babeen Hum ghareebon ke din bhi sanwar jayenge.] repeatĬhashm-e-Rahamat ba-kusha su-e-malandaaz nazar This is a very short version that condenses the original 20 minute qawwali down to about 4 minutes. He brought many people a lot of joy with his music. I added this version as a tribute to Amjad. It’s a one-of-a-kind performance that unfortunately will never be repeated since Amjad Sabri was murdered by the Taliban in June this year. But I have to post this other very special version sung by Amjad Sabri, the son of Ghulam Fareed Sabri of the Sabri Brothers. I already posted a version of this qawwali sung by Neha Naaz.
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