How more ridiculous it can be…I bet if Bulleh Shah was around today he will hung from a light post in the chowk.
Clerics condemn Kashmir pop song
The song is a big hit with Kashmiris (Photos courtesy of Oriental Star Agencies)
Religious leaders in Indian administered Kashmir have sought a ban on a pop song by two Pakistani singers.
A line in the song, Kachi Pencil (Fragile Pencil), says God has written the fate of man with a fragile pencil.
The song has become popular with people across the disputed state, despite the protests by enraged clerics who say God would never do such a thing.
They have threatened to take to the streets in protest at the song, which is sung by Akram Rahi and Naseebo Lal.
‘Blasphemous’
The BBC’s Binoo Joshi in Jammu says the song has become all the rage with Kashmiri people for its melody and lyrics.
But clerics in Jammu told the BBC it was blasphemous.
“There is no question of Allah [God] writing our fate with a fragile pencil,” said Moulvi Ghulam Rasool, who appealed to those owning the cassette to throw it away.
A similar message was given by other clerics at several mosques across the area.
But our correspondent says that despite the condemnation, the cassette is selling briskly.
“I play the cassette in my bus as it is popular with the passengers,” one local bus driver said.
ok I am buying this one tomorrow.:-)
a bit of research yields that the actual lyrinic says:
"mere likhay naseeb Rabb ne kachi pencil naal".
why the hell are mullahs mad? when did they start believing in Rabb...it is not like song mentions Allah.
Kachi Pencil Naal Naseebo Lal & Akram Rahi - CD
1) Kachi Pencil Naal
2) Ag Hijre Ne Laai Hai
3) Ae Si Naalon Thandi
4) Landa Har Koi Te
5) Bhangra Punjabi
6) Ek Dil Si Sada
I'm reading Bulleh Shah these days, if one starts looking for blasphemy in his work, I think every other piece of his can be viewed as blasphemous. There is this one, in which he talks about Allah swt being in one direction (Kaba) and Ram (?) in the other, two more are left empty so who's there? Or something along those lines. Beautiful if you get it, else pure blasphemy.
I haven't seen this one in my book yet, maybe it's there as well. We often talk about 'Allah ne us kis qismat pe siyahi phair di', or 'zulm khuda ka' etc, if anything, Mullahs should educate ppl to avoid such lines. These ppl have made a joke of themselves and our religion.
Bullah Shah was condemned by the muslim clergy of the time...so were many other sufis over the last 1000 years...religious literalist will have the same fatwa for them even today when he reads their writings carefully.....many consider Sufism as anti-Islamic ....but that is a minor detail...it does not stop Islamic preachers and bean counters(aa jee hum 2 billion hain) to claim the beauty of Sufism to bring new people to the fold.
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sufism and islam can only go together a very short distance....
and then the difference between them is almost infinite....
as far as bullhay shah is concerned, i have read his poetry and yet to find something thats blasphemy enuff to discard him....
ther is this piece of poetry that says "mawlaa aadmi ban aaya" and "gal samajh layee tay rola ki... ay raam raheem tay mola ki" that can cause doubts in mind....
or that best example of "hindu nahin, na musalman" that can be so interpreted as unIslamic....
mughal, if an innocent an unknown poet, probably teenager, crying after sepration from a girl he met may be once says in a moment of despire that ..."Rabb ne likhe naseeb mere kachi pencil naal"..if this line is blasphemy and deserved ban, I am not sure how Bullah, Waris Shah, Sarmast, Ghalib, Iqbal can be spared for making worse hints in their poetry...how about....khudi ko kar buland itna ke bande se khuda poochay bata teri raza kiya hai....how dare some one challenge khuda's raza? It is a slipepry slope and goes all the way down to the big ditch.
Chann ji, it's not a slippery slope. It's only blasphemous to those who lack any sense whatsoever when it comes to metaphor-ism. Idiots who're hung up on the semantics are only those who have limited intelligence and constipated understanding. They are not able to look things beyond what they may appear because of their pea-size brains.
channmahi, many molvis did object to that she'r of Allama Iqbal....
and many still do....
i remember reading a letter to one mufti in those newspapers' religious sections asking him if this she'r was in line with Islamic teachings or not....
the mufti gave a good explanation of how it was....
too bad i cant recall that letter for u now....
lekin u r right, ppl do object to things that they cant understand....
and i am not one of those who object to such poetry (maybe cuz i am a poet myself)....
frankly i have never yet understood why they found mansoor al-hallaj's "ana ulhaq" so offensive....