You will find “Abida Sings Shah Latif Bhitai” however you would perhaps enjoy a very young Abida Parveen singing Bulleh Shah in the very first track on “Abida Parveen Siraiki Kalam”

But could I trouble you with a request to undertake a audio journey that will take 7 minutes & 23 seconds

Refer to the link titled Ustad Manzoor & 2nd track titled “Khuta Kinjhar kin” (The King puts up camp at Keenjhar)

This is Shah Latif’s Sur Nooree-Jam-Tamachee & it is simply describing the scene of the King Jam Tamachee falling for the simply fisherwoman Nooree.

So it starts with Shah giving voice to Nooree who cries out to the Samoo King “You are the supreme lord, I, a lowly fisherwoman, full of blemishes, pray do not foresake me & turn your back on me in view of our abject poverty

At the banks of Lake Keenjhar, the King has put up his camp

Ladies of the harem by His side, by the Keenjhar, by the campside of Jam Tamachee

All these ladies, decked up in gold, laid down their tresses for the king to win his heart, by the Keenjhar, by the campside of Jam Tamachee

the hoarde of people, who sole possession is, Fish nets & stench of baskets of stinking fish, these relative of nooree, have now got this link to the royal household on account of the king’s marriage for Nooree, so enamored is he of her simplicity & grace

by the Keenjhar, by the campside of Jam Tamachee”

Now, what is about this fisherwoman’s humble existance & her demeanor her self-negation on account of her poverty & the king falling for her despite all this…is it the way Ustad Manzoor sings this that i am usually beyond that brink of tears

symbolically the king represents a religious figure (Allah in most cases & perhaps the Holy Prophet) & noorie & the likes of her, the mohanas whose core values of humility & simplicity are rewarded. the sufi interpretations are indeed layers of the onion & it would take a lifetime to fully capture all the nuances of the sufi poetry of the Shah

PS - Sorry for rambling on

I translated this poem to Spanish at my blog on http://ambrosiainnovata.net/?p=43

It seems me funny and insightfull at the same time.

Now I’m planning to post some poems from Saharaui people (from not recogniced Occidental Sahara people) and from Yemen authors, but I want to ask permission first to the Spanish publishers of them.

All my best
Ignacio

Please do listen this Kafi sang by M Juman.

jey rab milda natyan dhotyan te rab milda daduan machian noh
jey rab milda japiyaan satteeaan noh atte rab milda ghagray khashean noh
jey rab labda jangle peeraan ta labhda gauwan wachian noh

way bhulian rab una noo milda …
dilyaan achaiyaan sachian noh

No wonders Bulleh Shah peotry has been favourite choice of singers however the variation in the text and authentic text have often been perplexing. Minor variation leads to vasly different interpretation.

jey rab milda natyan dhotyan te rad milda daduan machian noh
jey rab milda japiyaan sattee aan noo atte rad milda ghagray khashean noh
jey rab labda jangle peeraan ta labhda gauwan wachian noh

way bhulian rab una noo milda …
dilyaan achaiyaan sachian noh

No wonders Bulleh Shah peotry has been favourite choice of singers however the variation in the text and authentic have often been perplexing. Minor variation leads to vasly different interpretation.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.