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posted by Zakintosh at 12/03/2006 12:07:00 AM
They laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at them because they are all the same.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have scrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that the saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought and, though it might seem too good for human life, this is what - at last - I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
Bertrand Russell
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Each century seems to take on a particular character as we view it in retrospect. How will the 20th Century be remembered? My guess is that this dramatic span of 100 years will ultimately be marked not by computers or the Internet, but by the drive toward individual freedom, the breaking of human barriers of prejudice, and the opening of society to include all people.
John S. Spong
DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
6 Comments:
"witnessed a touch of sufi music" ?
what else is the audience supposed to experience at a qavvali? Perhaps this particular NOTED QAWWAL doesn't know JS (excuse the expletive) about qavvali, and is indulging in misleading his naive audiences by singing pop music with lots of clapping accompanied by loads of tabla calisthenics and head hurling to the beat.
Unfortunately, I have never heard of 'noted qawwal' Munavvar Masoom Sayeed, so I really should'nt comment on his qavvali or whatever it is that passes for qavvali. But sounds like he's the kind of qavval i'd imagine having loads of long unkempt curly hair crowning his head and beads of all sizes and colours aplenty around his neck.
Another possibility, maybe the correspondent of the Hindustan Times covering the event, didn't know what else to say about the gent and his group.
04 December, 2006 21:43
Here in India, the qawwalis that one gets to listen to may be categorised into those in the praise of the Prophet, Sufiana qalaam and those in the form of romantic poetry. There are a number of mazaars of Sufi saints where one gets to listen to qawwalis that fall into the first two categories and the last one can be savoured, generally, in private mehfils. There are audio cassettes and CDs available, of course, of various local artistes, apart from those from Pakistan.
06 December, 2006 00:07
@sidhusaaheb, with due respect, ( I am admittedly NOT any kind of authority on this genre of music), but Qavvali does comprise of Hamd, Naat, (praises of God and the Prophet), Qaul (in Praise of Hazrat Ali) and renderings of the works of sufi saints and ghazals as well, but in no way does evoking 'a touch of sufi music 'BREAK NEW GROUND'.
06 December, 2006 06:19
@ghazala: Point taken!
:)
07 December, 2006 02:31
lol how did i miss this post earlier? hahaha it just made me laugh out loud! :D
09 May, 2007 23:58
History Of Qawwal Niaz
Niazi Brothers (Abdullah Manzoor Niazi Qawal & Makhmoor Ahmed Niazi Qawwal) belongs to a family of Delhi Gharana. Mr. Abdullah Manzoor Niazi was born at Karachi on 1960. The father of Niazi Brothers Mr. Haji Manzoor Ahmed Khan Niazi was born in Delhi, India in 1922. He is a renowned Qawal of Indo-Pak. The Grand-Father of him was Haji Mir Qutub bukhsh famous as Tan Ras Khan Sahib Rehmatullah, who was the teacher of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. He was awarded the title of Tan Ras and Nawab Atamad ul Mulk by the said Emperor, which is indicated by history. He was also legal advisor to the emperor.
Hazrat Amir Khusroo Rehmatullah who was the founder of Qawali and other arts, and also who had arranged a group of 12 children which was proved by history as Qawal Bachay. The leader of this Qawal Bachay was Mian Samat Nizami Rehmatullah and he was special student of Hazrat Amir Khusroo and he was the Grand-Father of Mian Tan Ras Khan Sahib Rehmatullah from him the Gharana of Singer started, which is reputed "by history as Delhi Gharana, except this there is no other Singer of Delhi Gharana in the universe".
Niazi Brother Grand-Father who we before Mian Samat Nizami and came to India with Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti Rehmatullah Elahe, who is famous as Mian Nigahi Mian Dargahi , who has the honour to be Murid and Qawal of Khawaja Sahib, one Masjid "Nigahi Dargahi Masjid" is still today at Dargah Bazar , Ajmer in his name, in this connection and services of Mian Tan Ras Khan Sahib, he had awarded one room at Ajmer Kalir, and Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin Delhi, separately, which is still existed there today.
Niazi Brother's father Haji Ahmed Khan Niazi Sahib is the only Qawal of Indo-Pak Subcontinent who first in the fourteen century history in 1970 at Madina Tayeba proved through discussion that Music is right in Islam and by the permission of Imam Madina Abdul Aziz Bin Saleh he at Madina performed publicly infront of Mazare Aqdas with the Musical instruments and sing Qawali in Arabia style and the public enjoyed this.
Quaid-e-Azam gave him the title of Bulbal-e-Deccan at Bombay on 1937. Haji Manzoor Niazi Sahib was granted Civil and Military Award in Different periods. The main titles are Malik-ul-qawal, Haseen Ragi, Shahinshah-e-Qawali, Pasban-e-Qawali, Raees-e-Qawali, Bulbul-e-Bagh-e-Nizam-o-Sabir, Manzoor Ahmed Khan Niazi for a long period remained with the Darbar of Nizam Hyderabad Deccan and he was given special considration by Nizam Hyderabad.
Niazi Brothers got this art of Qawali by their father Haji Manzoor Ahmed Khan Niazi. In this way this art is continued to exist since 9 hundred through generation to generation.
Niazi Brothers had visited several countries of the World and showed their performance. They represented themselves as Pakistani and raised the name of Country.
Although Niazi Brother are working with father since their childhood but since 1986 November, have established a party in their name. The countries they visited are Africa, England, Norway, Denmark, U.S.A., Sweden, Canada, Middle East, Far-East, Far-East, India, Bangladesh.
The Niazi Brother are honored the TITLE of DYNAMIC NIAZI BROTHERS by Africa.
17 November, 2007 04:55
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