Har lehza ba shakal aan but-e-ayyaar baraamad…
Khud kooza-o, khud koozagar-o, khud gil-e-kuza
Khud rind-e-subu kash

Blink, and there he was in a different form – that sly Beloved!...
He was the potter, the clay, the crafted cup.
He was the drunk who drained the cup

An 'ayyaar' is a 'pious rogue' and love is often described in this idiom in Persian Sufi poetry. Rumi calls his Beloved sly…. sly because he fools us with so much ease into believing that He is only here, not there, in one form, and not in another, and how we fall for this deception!

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Fariduddin Ayaz and Abu Mohammad are acclaimed qawwals from Karachi, Pakistan and belong to the 700-year-old 'Qawwal Bachchon Ka Gharana' of Delhi. Their main guru has been their father, the legendary qawwal Munshi Raziuddin Ahmed Khan. They sing in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pushto, Hindi, Poorbi, Persian, Arabic and Turkish, intermingling with aplomb the voice of Kabir with a range of Sufi poets including Jalaluddin Rumi, Sachal Sarmast, Zaheen Shah and others. Contact them at: +92-300-2105393, [email protected]

This song and album is available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00PH5KCCY

This is one of a series of uploads for Ajab Shahar, a webspace dedicated to mystic poem and song, created by the Kabir Project team (http://www.ajabshahar.org ; http://www.kabirproject.org).

Song Credits:
Lead Vocals & Harmonium: Fariduddin Ayaz & Abu Muhammad
Chorus & Clapping: Ghulam Akram, Ali Akbar, Gayoor Ahmed,
Moiz-uddin, Mubark Haris, Zarrar Ahmed, Shah Laeegh-uddin, Shehzad Hussain
Dholak: Muhammad Ashfa, Muhammad Nawab Kallan

Translation: Homayra Ziad

Video Credits:
Camera: Shabnam Virmani
Editing: Sharanya Gautam & Megha Bhaduri
Sound Recording: P M Satheesh
Mixing & Mastering at: Fireflys Post Sound, Mumbai
Sub-Titling: Namrata Ratnam & Shabnam Virmani
Collection: The Kabir Project

Place: Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India
Date of Recording: November, 2006