Pathanay Khan II

From previous post.

This is what I wrote about Pathanay Khan and this particular song, written by Khwaja Ghulam Farid, on my maths notebook during a class:

“All the voices in the world will fade away. The conspiracies, the thundering guns, cannons, the voices of wailing mothers of bleeding martyrs, nothing will remain in the world as will the voice of this man singing about his love for God. Indifferent to pain and pleasure alike. Someone who has lost himself in his lover.”

And this is the feeling I always get when I listen to this song. Just imagine, warriors conquer the world and then die and are lost. Politicians and generals make wars and kill thousands of human beings. Cities are destroyed by a push of a button. Famines. Floods. Earthquakes. Tornadoes and Fires. All come and go. And this voice. This man telling God that “You are my love and my friend, You are my religion, my faith, my body and my soul, my heart and my life, my direction….” Everything is You. This voice transcends all that. The Space and time. In the middle of an endless night the only spot of light singing to his One and True Love.

What can I say. The sincerity in the voice of Pathanay Khan is really amazing. He is another person whose genius we never realized nor appreciated. There certainly are/were a lot of those in this country.

I am not happy.

I am lost in this. I have been listening to this for three consecutive days now, and I mean continuously. On my cell phone, on my PC, everywhere, all the time. Then I keep singing it. And i do not want to stop.