The meaning of Sufism is the selfless experiencing and actualization of the truth as the main substance of Sufism is the truth. The practice of Sufism is the purpose toward the truth by means of devotion and love. The Sufi is a person who is a pure lover of truth and a person who moves toward the truth by means of devotion.
Sufism is in actual a school for actualization of divine ethics. Sufism involves an inner beings not logic, witnessing and revelation not intellectual proof. Lots of work has been conducted on Sufism number of poetries, sufism quotes, discourse, Articles and songs are written by the Sufi personalities. Sufism islam is a symbolic expression of spirituality through words. Sufism expresses the spiritual love and unity of being. Sufism is not accessible in prose writing.
If we talk about the origin of this word sufi we have two origins of this word. Commonly the lexical root of the word is traced to ṣafā , and this is an Arabic word means “purity” The other origin of this word Sufi is wool which is also in Arabic and this meaning reffering to the simple cloaks that wore by the early Muslim ascetics. The simple mean of sufi is the one who wears wool on top of purity. If we consider the scholars then we realize that they believe that sufi or wool is probably the root word of sufi.
Sufi songs are not only a trend of lollywood it is also liked and used by the bollywood. Large number of Sufi song collection are used and loved by the bollywood. The most prominent sufi singers of the world are Nusrat Fateh Ali khan, Reshma , Wadali Brothers, Rahet Fateh Ali khan, Kailash kher, Master saleem….
The well known and top sufi songs are:
- Arziyan – Delhi 6
- Mast Kalandar
- Tere Bin Nahin Jeena Mar Jaana Dholna – Kachhe Dhaage
- Ya Rabba – Salaam-e-Ishq
- Kun Faya Kun – Rockstar
- Piya Haji Ali – Fiza
- Khwaja Mere Khwaja – Jodhaa Akbar
- Allah Ke Bande
- Lagan Lagi
- Kun Faya Kun
- Tu Jaane Na
- Arziyan
- Iktara