Not much is given in my bio about this but there was a time, (when I was leaving Pakistan for the first time) I felt, how am I going to survive without access to music of my choice in the West.
I was very closely attached to classical (both vocal and instrumental) music and enjoyed raags as far as I could follow. Had no instruction in the classics but just enjoyed. (It all started from Bollywood songs) My favorite ones were Bhairaveen, Malkaus, PahaRi, Jayjaywanti Derbari and may have forgotten other names now. Many film songs based on classical and semiclassical tuning were also my fav as they were popular.
Sitar has always been appreciated by everybody but to be able to listen to BaRay Ghulamali Khan and such masters not many of my friends could sit with me to listen. I remember coming down with friends from Manchester to London to a program of Ravi Shanker.
Since my hearing acuity started failing, a time came when I could not enjoy music at all. So I quit but thanks to Allah SWT that I can still enjoy recitation of Qur'an and in fact I have become more and more sensitized to all the nuances of Qir'at and Tajweed. Tajweed is a science as well as an art of proper pronunciation of Qur'anic words. According to the teacher of my son Qir'at is a part of tajweed. There is so much music in all the recitations and the rhythm of the Qur'anic words that it amazes me, why I could not detect it before. I was in Badshahi Mosque Lahore in 1965 with my recording instruments when after Isha there was a competition of world famous Qaris, including the late Qari Abdul Basit Abdussamad. It was a very enjoyable evening (lasted till 3 am) but the way I feel the rhythm now is quite different as I was not initiated in Tajweed then. That is how I enjoy Ramazdan Taraweeh. I always missed being in Pakistan in Ramzan but now we have so many good hafiz in America I do not miss Pakistan at all. There is no doubt that a good voice and control enhances tajweed remarkably. Those Huffaz from Arabic speaking countries do a better job as they understand what they are reciting and are not in a hurry to "finish"and put emphasis on special ayat with repetition or with qir'at. This is real music.
I was very closely attached to classical (both vocal and instrumental) music and enjoyed raags as far as I could follow. Had no instruction in the classics but just enjoyed. (It all started from Bollywood songs) My favorite ones were Bhairaveen, Malkaus, PahaRi, Jayjaywanti Derbari and may have forgotten other names now. Many film songs based on classical and semiclassical tuning were also my fav as they were popular.
Sitar has always been appreciated by everybody but to be able to listen to BaRay Ghulamali Khan and such masters not many of my friends could sit with me to listen. I remember coming down with friends from Manchester to London to a program of Ravi Shanker.
Since my hearing acuity started failing, a time came when I could not enjoy music at all. So I quit but thanks to Allah SWT that I can still enjoy recitation of Qur'an and in fact I have become more and more sensitized to all the nuances of Qir'at and Tajweed. Tajweed is a science as well as an art of proper pronunciation of Qur'anic words. According to the teacher of my son Qir'at is a part of tajweed. There is so much music in all the recitations and the rhythm of the Qur'anic words that it amazes me, why I could not detect it before. I was in Badshahi Mosque Lahore in 1965 with my recording instruments when after Isha there was a competition of world famous Qaris, including the late Qari Abdul Basit Abdussamad. It was a very enjoyable evening (lasted till 3 am) but the way I feel the rhythm now is quite different as I was not initiated in Tajweed then. That is how I enjoy Ramazdan Taraweeh. I always missed being in Pakistan in Ramzan but now we have so many good hafiz in America I do not miss Pakistan at all. There is no doubt that a good voice and control enhances tajweed remarkably. Those Huffaz from Arabic speaking countries do a better job as they understand what they are reciting and are not in a hurry to "finish"and put emphasis on special ayat with repetition or with qir'at. This is real music.
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they are reciting and are not in a hurry to "finish"
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