When Aditya Dhar approached Satinder Sartaaj for the song, their conversation went beyond music. The Sufi icon also brought ...

Satinder Sartaaj's iconic Sufi aesthetic, now inseparable from his music, began spontaneously in 2003. While working on a project with Yami Gautam's father, Mukesh Gautam, Sartaaj, then a student, was ...

Sufi masters have instructed that it is advisable to busy the self with something worth doing. If not, the self shall busy you with something not worth your time. The profound wisdom of these words ...

Abida Parveen, born in 1954 in Larkana, is not just a name but an institution in the world of Sufi music. From an early age, her voice had begun garnering appreciation in her hometown, but it was her ...

What does it mean to love? Is to be loved really to be known? Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273 CE), an eminent poet and ...

one cannot blame Bollywood entirely for having taken the music form and adapted it according to its needs. Having laid that to rest, MensXP brings you the 10 best Sufi songs in Bollywood. We start off ...

Affan Yesvi is a Sufi scholar, columnist, and entrepreneur. As a descendant of the 11th-century Sufi saint, Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi - a mystic, poet, and founder of the Yasaviyya Sufi order in Central ...

Drumming, dancing, and bright lights. Pakistan’s centuries-old tradition of honoring Sufi saints comes alive during annual festivals known as Urs. In the eastern city of Lahore, as many as one million ...

When radical Islamists lash out at cultural sites they consider un-Islamic, a frequent target is Sufi Islam shrines. Islamists in Tunisia have attacked almost 40 Sufi shrines in recent months, Sufi ...