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The song was written by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 19th-century Nawab of Awadh, as a lament when he was exiled from his beloved Lucknow by the British Raj before the failed Rebellion of 1857. He uses the bidaai (bride's farewell) of a bride from her father's ( babul ) home as a metaphor for his own banishment from his beloved Lucknow to far away ...
Ali composed and wrote additional lyrics for the track "Dum Ali Ali Dum" [32] which is a variation of the popular 600-year-old qawwali, "Dama Dam Mast Qalandar," [33] originally written by Amir Khusrau and modified further by Bulleh Shah. [34] The song is a much-celebrated and widely-sung tribute to the Sufi mystic and saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz ...
In due course, Ali proceeded to Dhaka. This later migration is explained by the engulfment of Girdah as a result of Padma River erosion and Ali's desire to become initiated into the Chishti Order by Shah Bahar, a Sufi saint based in Dhaka. [2] Nevertheless, Ali also contributed to spreading Islam in Dhaka, where he remained until the rest of ...
Lalon (Bengali: লালন; died 17 October 1890), [1] also known as Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir, Shahji, was a Bengali spiritual leader, philosopher, mystic poet and social reformer. Regarded as an icon of Bengali culture , he inspired and influenced many philosophers, poets and social thinkers including Rabindranath Tagore , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ...
Pir Meher Ali Shah (Punjabi: پیر مہر علی شاہ, pronounced [piɾ mɛɦəɾ əli ʃaːɦ]; 14 April 1859 – May 1937) was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi scholar and mystic poet from Punjab, British India (present-day Pakistan). Belonging to the Chishti order, he is known as a Hanafi scholar who led the anti-Ahmadiyya movement.
Mera Piya Ghar Aaya (Punjabi: میرا پیا گھر آیا) is a Punjabi Sufi poem written by noted 18th-century Sufi saint and poet Baba Bulleh Shah. He composed this poem at the return of his Murshid Shah Inayat Qadiri. [1] The song is part of most of the Qawwali performances.
Tilla Jogian, where Ranjha came. Heer Ranjha [a] (Punjabi: [ɦiɾ ɾaːnd͡ʒ(ʱ)aː]) is a traditional Punjabi folk tragedy with many historic poetic narrations; [1] with the first one penned by Damodar Gulati in 1600s, on the preexisting oral legend; and the most famous one, Heer, written by Waris Shah in 1766, in the form of an epic.
Ladishah (also spelled Ladi Shah or Laddi Shah) is a storytelling musical genre originated in Jammu and Kashmir with its roots in traditional and humorous folk singing originally sung by minstrels while locally wondering from one place to another. [2]