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The Story Behind Soz-e-Ishq
Soz-e-Ishq closed Coke Studio Pakistan's third season, arriving in the fifth and final episode on 31 July 2010, two months after the season opened on 1 June. Abida Parveen sings a Punjabi kafi of Bulleh Shah, and the eighteenth century poet signs its closing couplet with his own name, a convention that turns the last lines into an authorial seal. Rohail Hyatt produced the session, as he did the rest of that season. It was the last of the three performances Season 3 gave her, after Ramooz-e-Ishq in the opening episode and Nigah-e-Darwaishaan in the third. Hyatt has since gathered those early seasons onto his own YouTube channel, which is where this recording now lives.
Meaning & Translation
Soz-e-Ishq means the burning of love. Soz is heat and ache rather than warmth, and the phrase belongs to a Sufi vocabulary in which love is a furnace rather than an affection: the self is what burns, and what survives the burning stands closer to God. Bulleh Shah's kafi works that idea through the voice of a seeker who has stopped counting the cost of it, moving between complaint and surrender. The final lines carry the poet's own name, the signature that marks a kafi as his rather than anyone else's. Abida Parveen sings it as testimony rather than performance, which is what gives a piece this long its patience.
Details
- Artist
- Abida Parveen
- Category
- Coke Studio
- Collection
- Coke Studio Season 3
- Released
- 2010
- Genre
- Classical, Devotional
- Mood
- Devotional, Melancholy
- YouTube Views
- 1.57M
Artists & Credits
- Abida Parveen singer
- Bulleh Shah lyricist
- Rohail Hyatt producer