Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a legend. It has been established decades ago that there will never be another NFAK. His words are used and his qawwalis are remade even now and they still never fail to mesmerize us with their beauty.
These are the times when the depth for his qawwalis was too much for us to take:
1. He showed us sometimes, people closest to you are the ones the end up hurting you the most
In his Qawwali “Jitne Bhi Zakhm hain Mere Dill Per” he beautifully tells the tale of not enemies, but his friends who ended up hurting him the most.
2. When he knew this cruel world doesn’t provide the freedom for actions, but he can always meet his beloved in his thoughts
3. When he gave the most beautiful badua to the one he loved
4. He knows that sometimes you don’t have to say much to get the message across
All he wants his beloved to know that his eyes yearn to see her face., nothing more, nothing less.
5. Can you ever get enough of your beloved’s face?
6. When he taught you that some moments only happen once in a lifetime
7. When for him, one look from his loved one was nothing less than an act of charity for him
8. When he believed in trusting his love blindly
9. When he gives his love a second chance and asks her to return
10. When he knew the right way to compliment a woman
11. When he sung about how ruthlessly she talks to him and breaks his heart and yet his love for her never changes
12. When he acknowledges that with his loved one gone, there is nothing left for him at all
13. When he endorsed the natural beauty of his love
14. When he wanted to give everything up for her and before offering to give her his life, he sweetly asked her: Mere baad kisko satao gay?
15. When in Afreen Afreen, he set such a high standard of complimenting a woman’s beauty, one can only dream of trespassing it
Which of his famous words do you like the most?