♪ Ghoom Charakhra: Poet Shah Hussain

Introduction: This poem was written by a sufi poet & saint Shah Hussain. And has been sung by a number of singers. Still people found tranquility in listening to this sufi music.

گھوم چرخڑا چرخڑا
Ghoom charakhra charakhra
Spin, spinning wheel!

گھوم چرخڑا سائیاں دا تیری کتن والی جیوے
Ghoom charakhra saainyyaan da teri kattan waali jeewe
Spin, Lord’s spinning wheel, long live the one who spins You

کتن والی جیوے
Kattan waali jeewe
Long live the one who spins You

لڑیاں وتن والی جیوے
Lariyaan kattan wali jeevay
Long live the one who spins Your strands

Here few audio links by different singers are shared.
1. Abida Parveen


2. Arieb Azhar

3. Pathanay Khan

4. Junoon


"Its the love, it's love, that make the world go round"


6 comments:

  1. What does charkha signify here .?

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  2. chakar khana circle dizzy? or ghoom ghomna spinning ?

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  3. i think he is talking about whirling dervishes or he is talking about circle of time

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  4. The Coke Studio (Season 11) version with Abida Parveen and Ali Azmat is fantastic. There are more lyrics that what is posted here. They're wonderfully poetic!

    My interpretation is that it's a song saying "Divine, I am painted in your image. People may think I'm crazed, but I am one with you and I am spinning in your ecstasy. Divine, please keep spinning the wheel of love, devotion, and ecstasy within me." There's more in there, of course, some of it is much more literal. I agree it could be a reference to Whirling Dervishes and the way that they spin. It's a beautiful metaphor, spinning the yarn of my heart with the wheel of love and devotion.

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