meda ishq vi toon ghulam farid kafi by pathaney khan 1 میڈا عشق وی توں

The Poet: Khuwaja Ghulam Farid was born in 1845 and was named Khursheed Alam. His ancestors were Arab traders who had settled in India. His father, Khuwaja Khuda Bakhsh, passed away when he was 8 years old. Then his older brother, Khuwaja Fakhar Jahan took care of his education. He learned the Holy Quran by heart at a young age. He was 27 years old when his older brother died. By that time he had completed his religious education. He knew many languages including Arabi, Farsi, Saraiki, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Brij Bhasha, and Urdu. The area where he grew up is called Rohi, named after Rohi (or Cholistan) Desert. People have mostly nomadic life style in that area. His life was spent teaching religion to his murids and writing poetry in Urdu and Saraiki, and prose in Farsi. He and his poetry is deeply loved by the Saraiki speaking people of Southern Punjab in Pakistan. Saraiki is a language almost identical to Punjabi, but with a significant influence of Sindhi. The Province of Sindh borders this region towards South. Khuwaja Ghulam Farid passed away on 24th July 1901. His Saraiki Divan consists of poems called kafis, which are essentially ghazals by form, and are full of sufi themes. In this Kafi (# 132), the refrain (radeef) is "vi toon" (وی توں), meaning "are also You". The beloved is being called everything from love, friend, soul, spirit, to the part in the hair, lipstick, etc. The boundaries between the beloved and the Creator are all mixed up. Like in the ghazals of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. The Singer: Pathaney Khan was born in mid 1920's in Kot Addu, District Muzaffargarh (Punjab, Pakistan, then in British India). He mostly sang sufi poetry, including poems (kafis) of Khuwaja Ghulam Farid on radio and television in Pakistan for over 25 years. He also sang Urdu ghazals. He was (and still is) very popular, especially in the Saraiki areas which form the Southern third of Western (Pakistani) Punjab. He was awarded the Pride of Performance Award in 1979. He was a simple man who never cared about money throughout his life. He was very ill in his final years and his financial position was not good. He passed away on 9 March 2000. He put his soul into his singing, which makes a lot of people happy. May his soul rest in eternal peace. (KhamoshTamashai)

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