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Amir Khusrau and his Adaptability – J. Dadademery

(The fair one lies on the couch with her black tresses scattered on her face
O Khusrau, come home now, for night has fallen all over the world).

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Learn from the Hindu how worship is done: Amir Khusrau

Learn also from him how worship is done.
–Amir Khusrau

Meher Murshed

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The Idea of India in Amir Khusrau

With the glory of India, Khusrau cannot help linking his own fame!
No wizard in the art of poetry like Khusrau exists under the sun Because Khusrau belongs to India and he is the admirer of Qutb-e-Alam (the Sultan).

Ali Nadeem Rezavi

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AMIR KHUSRAU AND INDIAN MUSIC-S. K. SINHA

Amir Khusraw was a Sufi; he took to devotional music and introduced the present Quawali style

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qavvali aur amir khusrau ka mauqif

Akmal Hyderabadi

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amir khusrau ko hazrat nizamuddin auliya ki chhoot

Akmal Hyderabadi

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Nizamuddin Auliya to Amir Khusrau: I am weary of everyone, even myself, but never of you

O Khusrau, in that place which is no place,
And God himself was the head of that gathering,

Meher Murshed

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Nizamuddin Auliya: Amir Khusrau’s soul

O Khusrau, in that place which is no place,
And God himself was the head of that gathering,

Meher Murshed

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qavvali mein aqval e rasul ka isti’mal aur aqval e khusrau ka isti’mal

Akmal Hyderabadi

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Rang De, Amir Khusrau’s ode to Nizamuddin Auliya, by Chand Tara Orchestra moves the heart

So you begin to think. What would Nizamuddin Auliya have said? What would Amir Khusrau have said?
Sama is movement of the heart when you remember the Beloved.

Meher Murshed

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amir khusrau ki jartar e tajavuz

Akmal Hyderabadi

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This Path is not about religion: Just faith

Khusrau was away in Bengal on a campaign when Nizamuddin passed. On hearing the news, he

Meher Murshed

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Nizamuddin Auliya: A life spent in bringing happiness to the human heart

Nizamuddin was that perfected spirit. He could feel others’ pain. And in Amir Khusrau, Nizamuddin found that perfected spirit. Khusrau too felt the pain of others.
Nizamuddin was the shield of his people against the treacherous times, against life’s beatings of the soul. And no one other than Amir Khusrau realised that when the master would be reunited with his Love, the pain would be so intense that the lacerations would appear on his soul. Khusrau would not survive.

Meher Murshed

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Bruce Lawrence’s Morals for the Heart: You may not see Nizamuddin but you can hear him

There is a story by the late sixteenth century historian Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah, better known

Meher Murshed

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Characteristics of the Chishtia Silsila - Maikash Akbarabadi

Among the Chishti saints, by far, the most prominent figure is that of Hazarat Nizamuddin Auliya

Maikash Akbarabadi

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jadid qavvali par josh malihabadi, firaq gorakhpuri aur kaifi ka asar

Akmal Hyderabadi

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qavvali ki iijad o irtiqa

Akmal Hyderabadi

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tazkira shankar o shambhu qavval

Akmal Hyderabadi

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qavvali ke qadim o jadid muqable

Akmal Hyderabadi

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Nizamuddin Auliya: The Darwesh of Love

Khusrau would pray most of the night himself. Once Nizamuddin asked him: “Turk, what is the state of being occupied?” “There are times at the end of the night when one is overcome by weeping,” he replied. “Praise be to God, bit by bit is being manifest,” Nizamuddin said.
Nizamuddin loved Sama, it was a path to the Divine. Khusrau transformed Sama into Qawwali for his master.

Meher Murshed