dil se jo baat nikle jawab e shikwa
Jawab E Shikwa Vol 72 — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan MP3
Jawab E Shikwa — "the answer to the complaint" — is the companion piece to Allama Iqbal's Shikwa (Complaint), one of the most important Urdu poems of the 20th century. In Shikwa, Iqbal voices the complaint of the Muslim community to God: we have been faithful, why have you forsaken us? In Jawab E Shikwa, he gives the divine response: you have not been faithful enough. The exchange is theologically sophisticated, politically charged, and poetically extraordinary. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan gave new meanings to the traditional form of qawwali by including material of this kind — not just classical sufi poetry but modern Urdu literary verse — in his performance repertoire.
Iqbal in Qawwali Performance
The decision to perform Iqbal's Jawab E Shikwa in qawwali format is itself a statement: this verse belongs in the tradition of sufi devotional music, not just in literary anthologies. Nusrat earned Pakistan an international name through his ever-new urdu qawwalis, and his engagement with Iqbal represents one of the ways he extended the tradition's contemporary relevance beyond the classical corpus. Although his qawwali majorly depicts the ethnic form rooted in classical Punjabi-Urdu sufi poetry, his intellectual range was wider.
Noor Jehan and Priceless Gems Shandar Qawaliyan CD 1 offer related material in different performance registers from the same Urdu literary tradition.
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FAQ
Who was Allama Iqbal? Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian Muslim philosopher and poet whose work in Urdu and Persian shaped modern Pakistani national identity. Shikwa and Jawab E Shikwa are among his most read poems.
Is this appropriate for non-Muslims to listen to? Yes — the poem and the performance are part of the world's literary and musical heritage. Non-Muslims familiar with the historical context will find it illuminating regardless of their own position.
What volume does Vol 72 belong to? The numbering suggests this is part of a large series of Nusrat recordings organized thematically or chronologically. Individual volume contents are listed on the iRulz track page.
You may also enjoy the qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Noor Jehan, and Priceless Gems Vol 1. Listen to more qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.