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“Sur” Is Allah: Riffat Sultana’s Pakistani Sufi Devotional Music - P1/2 (In Urdu)
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Today’s
Enlightening Entertainment
will be presented
in Urdu and English,
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Chinese, English,
French, German,
Indonesian, Japanese,
Korean, Malay,
Persian, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish
and Thai.
If a song has
light and color, then
the music of Pakistan
is a beautiful jewel
shining in the midst
of the world’s
musical treasure chest.
As an expression of culture,
the music of Pakistan
has embraced the diverse
styles and traditions,
originated from
South Asia, Central Asia,
the Arab world
and the modern West.
In today’s
Enlightening Entertainment,
we have a rare chance
to enjoy the living history
of Pakistani Sufi music
with Ms. Riffat Sultana,
renowned
Pakistani singer
and her widely loved
acoustic band
called The Party.
With her memorable voice,
Riffat Sultana sings aloud
the musical wisdom
that has nourished
eleven generations of
famed family musicians
in Pakistan and India.
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
The playful Sham
is teasing me.
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
The playful Sham
is teasing me.
My shawl
keeps getting tangled,
I feel helpless,
what do I do, Ram.
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
It is first dawn
at the riverbank.
Both Riffat’s father
Ustad Salamat Ali Khan
and her uncle
Nazakat Ali Khan
were respected Pakistani
master musicians.
Having started their musical
training in India at age 7
and 9 respectively,
they later established their
own school of music,
Sham Churasi Gharana,
after moving
to Pakistan’s town
of Multan around
the mid-20th century.
So they started
Multani Kafi over there,
and they became
very famous for
this Multani Saraiki
language singing.
Mostly my father sang
Khayal style.
Before, our ancestors, my
great-great grandfather,
they started with
the musical Dhrupad.
Dhrupad is like
a very slow mellow style
music, they do like
They take so long
[for] one note,
and stay over there, and
every note is so beautiful,
like a pearl,
Dhrupad is kind of like that.
Then, Ms. Sultana’s father
Ustad Salamat Ali Khan
introduced a new style
into the music,
called Khayal.
Khayal is more like…
something like that,
making like a different
kind of a voice, phrase.
So kind of
like a modern style.
So my father started Khayal.
They became
like a very, like a legend
in Pakistan and India,
they performed
all over the world
with my uncle, my father.
Khayal and Tu meri
are two modern genres
of classical singing
in India and Pakistan.
A creator of Khayal
as well as a songwriter
in Tu meri,
Ustad Salamat Ali Khan
brought greater freedom
and imagination
to classical music.
Aspiring singers
from India and abroad
came to stay at the house
to study music with him.
Following
the family tradition,
the vocal teacher
trained his four sons to be
experts in classical music
enriched with a wide scope
of improvisation.
We are four brothers,
four sisters.
So all brothers do sing,
and all my uncles,
my mum’s side,
my father’s side,
everybody is a singer.
We don’t have any
other work or any job,
it is full time,
everybody has this.
So this is our business,
and they want to do this
because
they are born for that.
Riffat Sultana is
nevertheless
the first woman
in her family history
to sing for the public.
In fact, she did not receive
classical music training
before she became a singer.
She learned to sing by
pure will and by listening
to his father and brothers
during their courses.
Her family and the students
who stayed at their home
all recognized
her gifted voice.
I say I want to sing,
I want to sing some day.
So even I am cooking,
I am singing.
I am cleaning, I am singing,
I am making chapatti,
I’m singing, just
singing, singing, singing.
Sleeping time, singing.
Even I am in the shower
I am singing so loud,
every whole neighbor
listening to me. .
If sometime
it’s like some guys standing
outside of my home.
They are falling in love
with me
because I am singing.
This singing is my spirit.
If I am not on the hill,
he comes into my house.
I tell him off
to leave me alone,
and do not open the door.
While I try to sleep,
he wakes me
with the throw of a stone.
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
It is first dawn
at the riverbank.
The playful Sham
is teasing me.
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
The playful Sham
is teasing me.
My shawl
keeps getting tangled,
I feel helpless,
what do I do, Ram.
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
It is first dawn
at the riverbank,
It is first dawn
at the riverbank.
This beautiful song
we just enjoyed
is a prayer song
for Rama and Krishna
in the classical genre
of Bhajan.
We will be back with
more of Riffat Sultana’s
enchanting singing
when we return.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Thanks for joining us
again on
Enlightening Entertainment,
getting to know
the acclaimed Pakistani
musician and singer,
Riffat Sultana.
Specializing
in devotional Sufi songs,
Riffat Sultana’s singing
also voices her mother’s
musical legacy.
A gifted vocalist from India,
Riffat’s mother Razia
descended from
a line of top Punjabi
classical musicians
who belonged to
the prominent group
of Hindustani artists
called the Patiala Gharana.
Never performing
in public, Riffat’s mom
sang in private homes
at Sufi ceremonies instead.
My mum had
a very beautiful voice,
and my father
fell in love with her
when he heard her music,
She is a very good singer.
She is singing
in a home party,
some kind of wedding, and
they’re sitting over there,
and she’s sitting
with the women.
And she plays dholak
and she sings so good
some kind of song.
My father is just like, wow!
And my mum [is]
very beautiful, too.
She is a very
special person too.
She will pray
five time namaz.
And she worshipped
her guru, she loved
her Sufi saint, his name is
Shahbaz Qalandar.
He’s very big Sufi saint
in Pakistan.
My whole family has
big devotion for him.
A natural singer
like her mother,
Riffat Sultana also finds
natural oneness between
singing and prayer,
musical sound
and the Divine.
Music is kind of
like a prayer. It’s prayer.
When we have a note,
one note,
and touches your heart,
it’s kind of like
God is right there,
like we said,
“Music is God, Allah.”
Saregamabadanisa.
Sanetagamabanisa.
When we say
Sa… ah… ave Allah…
sometimes we say
Allah… Allah is God.
So it’s like a spiritual thin.
It’s like we’re praying.
We memorize our God.
We’re just telling him,
putting a hymn
in our heart.
And music is all like God,
and has a feeling inside.
Music has a feeling.
Even classical music,
even Sufi music,
is kind of like
they do prayer,
is feeling inside,
is the God inside.
In each of
her performances,
Riffat Sultana will start
with a Sufi devotional song,
and end with another.
She knows
from deep in her heart
that the vibration
of the musical sound,
or the note, is itself Allah.
So then I sing
in front of you,
in front of Americans,
different kind of
culture people.
They are not listening
[to the] word.
The sur. Sur means note.
Sur is Allah. Sur is God.
The note is Allah.
Sur makes
everybody together,
and feel feeling.
So that’s why
people [are] into my music,
Pakistani, Indian,
Pakistani classical music,
or Sufi music,
people [are] in trance,
they go right inside.
Sur goes in their inside.
God goes inside –
touches [them].
Let us now enjoy a beautiful
Sufi devotional song
composed by
Riffat Sultana’s brother,
Shafqt Ali Khan.
Like many Sufi songs,
this song is a dance song,
describing the excitement
and ecstasy of meeting God.
Unconcerned of the world,
I danced today
with such passion that,
my ankle-bell broke.
Unconcerned of the world,
I danced today
with such passion that,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart.
I was bursting with youth,
and it was craze of love too;
I was bursting with youth,
and it was craze of love too;
Each wink of mine
became an arrow,
Each lock of my hair
became shackles.
When I took hold
of my lover’s hand,
When I took hold
of my lover’s hand,
my hand shook so hard that
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
I will dance all night
even if
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart,
my ankle-bell fell apart.
Spirited viewers,
it was a pleasure
having you with us today.
Please tune in for
the second and final part
of our feature,
“Sur” Is Allah:
Riffat Sultana’s Pakistani
Sufi Devotional Music,”
next Friday on
Enlightening Entertainment.
Up next
on Supreme Master
Television
is Words of Wisdom,
after Noteworthy News.
May your heart
be forever filled with
the sound of music
and love of Allah.
For more on Riffat Sultana
and her music CDs,
please visit
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