This punjabi qawwali that incorporates works of Bulleh Shah, is a Sufi devotional piece that carries the inner, baatin, on the outer, zahir. The pinnacle, that is often misplaced, of the lyrical is giving precedence to the meaning, or intentions of ones actions as a devotee, servant of God, or believer. The question posed is, what use is your ritual prayer during which your heart and mind lay elsewhere? Sadiq’s collaboration with Bulleh Shah explains how rules or laws are to be followed by holding to mind the meaning and soul of it. For instance, the main lyric refers to God as ones Lover- adding the ingredient of love to ones daily prayers and subtracting the monotonous, meaningless, robotic, ritual aspect of what our devotion to God has come to being. Most of us have lost our path in expectorating Islamic law’s i.e. correcting one another on prayer positions, where the hands should be, how the head must be covered, if a woman’s single strand of hair shows her salah is invalidated, or if she wears nail polish etc. Having become raptured by the laws (form), we robotically perform our daily prayers as a law, a rule, because Allah has commanded so. While we fail to grasp the core, or meaning of the command- to pray 5 times, to remember Him and become reminded, for gratitude and humility, and most importantly, for love! We reserve love for our lovers, friends and families, what about love for Him? What is the value of your prayer when you pray because it is a commandment, in collation with when you pray because you love. Only He is worthy to be loved, He is Love, the Lover, the Loved, the sole King and Ruler of every heart.
*Form- zahir, shari’a, law, outer, rule, command, the form of prayer
*Meaning- baatin, love, core, essence, inner
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