This is the version that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan did with Bally Sagoo. Its from the album Magic Touch. I love this track’s original qawwali but love this version even more (partially due to Bally Sagoo’s efforts too).
This track is particularly bad for me whenever im driving since i have been once involved in a car accident back in pak (about 8-9 years ago) and almost got into an accident here in toronto once - both times while listening to this track and lost in some other world. It is no exaggeration his voice has a hypnotic effect.
Can anybody kindly post this song’s lyrics with translation? Thanks!
Aaa (Sufi Chants) (Nusrat)
Aaa (Chorus)
Ali Imam E Manasto Manam Gulaam E Ali. Ali! Ali! Ali! Ali!
Ali Imam E Manasto Manam Gulaam E Ali. Ali! Ali! Ali! Ali!
Ali Imam E Manasto Manam Gulaam E Ali
Hazaar Janay Girami Fida E Naam E Ali
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da (Chorus)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri (Nusrat)
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri (Chorus)
Char Gaya Menu Haideri Rung
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri (Side Vocalist)
Char Gaya Menu Haideri Rung
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri (Side Vocal)
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri
Char Gaya Menu Haideri Rung
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri (Side Vocal)
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Meri
Char Gaya Menu Haideri Rung
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Maula Ali Maula Vird Bakawanga (Nusrat)
Ali Maula Ali Maula Vird Bakawanga (Chorus)
Aaa
Maula Ali Maula Vird Bakawanga
Ali Maula Ali Maula Vird Bakawanga
Ghama De Tufana Vich Bar Nai Jawanga
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da (Side Vocal)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Aaa (Nusrat)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Maulaa, Ali Maula (Rahat)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Da Malang Mei Te ... Aa Maula Maulaa
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Maula Ali Maula
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Sa Ne Sa Re Ga Ga Re (Qawwali Vocables)... (Nusrat)
Sa Ne Sa Re Ga Ga Re (Qawwali Vocables)... (Chorus)
More Vocables... (Nusrat)
Aaa (Sufi Chants) (Rahat)
More Vocables... (Nusrat)
More Chants (Rahat)
Vocables... (Nusrat)
Dhol Beats... (Repetition For About 30 Seconds)
Ne Sa Re Ga Ga Re (Nusrat)
Aaa... (Rahat)
Ne Sa Re Ga Ga Re (Nusrat)
Aaa... (Rahat)
Ne Sa Re Ga Ga Re (Nusrat)
Aaa... (Rahat) (Repetition For About A Minute)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da (Chorus)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da (Chorus)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Phula Vich Phul Jive Honda Ey Gulaab Da
Waliyan Te Vich Inj Rutba Ganab Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Mere Dil Vich, Ali Mere Sawan Vich (Nusrat)
Ali Mere Aas Paas, Ali Hai Nigahan Vich
Aashiqan De Dere Pali? Ali Di Adawan Vich
Rub Rakhay Sarian Nu Ali Di Panawan Vich
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da (Chorus)
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Malang
Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Maula Kari Ja (Nusrat)
Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Maula Kari Ja
Aaa... (Chants by Rahat)
Vocables... (Nusrat)
Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Maula Kari Ja (Nusrat)
Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Maula Kari Ja
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da
Ali Da Malang Mei Te Ali Da Aaa..
didn't want to make a new topic, but I was listening to this beautiful song and recollected how some of my elders sat and talked and this song played and they all stopped in respect. I sat there in my little tricycle watching my elders soaking in these beautiful lyrics...as I do so now.
Maula Ali Naal Nisbat Mery,
Char Gaya Manu Hydari Rungg!
I personally live this song so much myself! It has and I believe alwats will be one of the few too everlasting soul moving songs in my life. As an indo canadian sikh boy growing up to find this song on Bally Sagoos album Magic Touch, a remix album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's hit songs, in my parents closet stacked among other 90s bollywood cassettes and cd's.
I too am moved by his voice and the lyrics have always given me the strong impression of this great legends love for God and true nature. Here is an explanation of the jist of the song.
Malang is a word with many, confusing, and even contradicting meanings, but to start with, you can say that a malang is mostly someone who does not know of his surroundings.
Malang is a word used for some Sufi saints, quite commonly, as well as a derogatory term sometimes, as a mad or a nomad, though in poetry it is mostly not seen as a derogatory term.
The word can be used in Urdu, Punjabi, and reportedly is also used in Afghani and even Persian, which probably is the root for the word. In Afghanistan, it is said, the word can be used for stage-magicians to sorcerers to beggars to sufi saints to holy men. J.L. Lee's Ancient Supremacy describes Malang as 'malang: a religious mystic, often with heterodox or extreme sufi tendencies; a shrine attendant.'
But then, I don't think we need to do a huge research for our meaning here, as you can see, it's more or less about someone who doesn't much care about his surroundings, someone who is not worldly while living in this world. I hope that's enough to get the meaning of things most of the times.
Malang?