| Touch of Sufi music By MIO Team |
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Kailash Kher, one of the stern follower of Sufi music says has to say. "Sufism is so sacred and pure that although we have started to make inroads into incorporating its elements in our music, we still have a very long way to go. The level of purity is so high in Sufi music that it goes beyond the realm of the physical to the spiritual. Something vaguely like a quawwali interspersed with 'Allah', 'Khuda' or 'Ali' and portrayed by clips of a woman showing skin, do not even come close to Sufi. And an artist inspired by Sufism renders his art in the spirit of purity, like Rahman's music in Dil Se." Noted ghazal singer Jagjit Singh theorizes, "There is nothing like Sufi music as a separate genre. Sufi poetry is a genre by itself that was sung as pure devotion to God." In India too, Sufi saints of Punjab wrote and sang in Punjabi, and those of Kashmir did so in Kashmiri. The government is now attempting to preserve the culture by setting up of a Sufi museum in Panipat. |
