Definition of Sufi music:- Qawwali is the most well known from of Sufi
music mostly in India and Pakistan ..Sufi love
songs are often performed as Ghazals..a solo
genre accompained by percurssion and harm-
onium,using a repertoire of songs sufi poets..
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Singer:-
1. Bulleh Shah:-
Bulleh Shah (1680-1757)is the foremost Sufi poet of Punjab and holds
manifold importance. In him the pantheism of punjabi Sufism reached its apex.
He was born in sayyed family in the village near Kasur. He become a fakir of
Qadri order as disciple of Shah Inayat , an Arain peasand and Sufi master.
Major part of Bulleh shah's verse is in the Kafi form like Shah Hussain, but
he has written in some other forms too, like Bara-maha and si-harfi. Love for
Bulleh Shah is essence of God. he affirms that it is a fire which is let in the
heart of man. It is yearning for return to God and is generally at the moment
the individual self gets seprated from him. His verses are very popular
amoungs the Punjabis
