Why did AR Rahman convert to Islam?

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Re: Why did AR Rahman convert to Islam?

@ajazali

All the musicians in pakistan would give you arguments from sufism. When Junaid left, salman said we sing sufi kalam only.

music then?

lulz](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=lulz) ‘Man mera bole meri piyas bujha’, ‘mera dil nahin available’ and ‘o kon thi tamam shehr uske husn main gum tha’ were quite sufi song

A R Rahman and NFAK worked on an album for 50th century independence celebration.

@ajazali

even sameena peerzada is so much learned. Says, Tassuwaff is not in Islam, Islam is in tassuwaf,

Its her personal view and she is not an authority on Islam or sufisim. Moreover, we don’t know in which context she said so.