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Mere Rashk-e-Qamar" by Junaid Asghar became second video to garner over 500 million views. This is the list of most-viewed Pakistani music videos on YouTube. As of 20 February 2023 (), 35+ videos have exceeded 100 million views (including 2 videos having 1 billion views).
The music video features Atif Aslam. It is the first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views on YouTube. [9] [10] The official video has garnered over 520 million views on YouTube, and became the most viewed Youtube video of Pakistani-origin, as of January 2022, leaving behind Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Momina Mustehsan's rendition of Afreen Afreen having 336 million views. [11]
The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are primarily in Persian, Urdu, and Hindi, [13] [14] although Sufi poetry appears in local languages as well (including Punjabi, Saraiki, and dialects of northern India like Braj Bhasha and Awadhi.) [15] [16] The sound of regional language qawwali can be totally different from that of mainstream ...
Naʽat (Bengali: নাত and Urdu: نعت) is poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The practice is popular in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan and India), commonly in Bengali, Punjabi, or Urdu. People who recite Naʽat are known as Naʽat Khawan or sanaʽa-khuaʽan.
Artha as a concept includes multiple meanings. It is difficult to capture the meaning of artha, or related terms of dharma, kama and moksha, each in a single English word. [9] Artha, as a goal of life, involves the pursuit of wealth and power. Some traditions see it as the primary human objective, as noted in Manusmriti (2.224).
The English word lataif is the plural of the transliterated Arabic word latifa that stems from the trilateral verb la-ṭa-fa, which means "to be subtle". [27] It assumed a spiritual meaning in the Quran where Al-Latif is the 30th of the 99 names of God in Islam, reflecting His subtle nature. [27] [28]
For example, the "Allah Hoo" that appears on the Sabri Brothers 1978 album Qawwali: Sufi Music from Pakistan is totally different from the song that became one of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's signature qawwalis, and this in turn is totally different from Qawwal Bahauddin's version on the 1991 Shalimar compilation video titled "Tajdar-e-Haram, vol. 2 ...
Khyāl (خیال) is an Urdu word of Arabic origin which means "imagination, thought, ideation, meditation, reflection". Hence khyal connotes the idea of a song that is imaginative and creative in either its nature or execution. The word entered India through the medium of the Persian language. Just as the word reflects ideas of imagination and ...