World-famous Naat Faaslon Ko Takalluf 

The poet of this Naat, Professor Iqbal Azeem never wrote the word ‘Faaslon’. What he originally wrote was ‘Qaaflon Ko Takalluf hay hum se agar’ and that roughly translates to ‘if caravans are reluctant to carry us with them’. The striking change in meaning, not flow, from Qaaflon to Faaslon was an oversight on behalf of its reciter: Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi.

While Qasmi turned this into a timeless Naat by lending his high-pitched voice to it, the error he made, permanently moved this kalam from the list of letter “Qaaf” to “Fay” in index sections of many books – not to mention that “Qaaf” and “Fay” are neighbour letters in the Arabic/Urdu realm of alphabets and they both look too similar when conjoined in words. The only difference that remains is that “Qaaf” has two dots on it, while “Fay” has one dot. This could explain the gaffe that set off the confusion and went down in cultural history as the most important Naat of our times.

To put it bluntly, ‘Faaslon’ doesn’t make any sense at all in this stanza. Nevertheless, not many listeners seem to be bothered about it even though this Kalaam has been ‘viral’ since the ’90s if not the 80s.

Even this ignorance on behalf of the listeners and aficionados can be attributed to the sharp yet moving tune that arrests the listener so profoundly that it almost clouds their comprehension otherwise. If that is pure genius as a reciter, it is pure irony when Naat reciters well aware of the associated literary traditions never picked up on that and continued to mimic the words and the tune.

The Kalaam was originally published in Azeem’s book Qaab-a-Qosain as ‘Qaaflon’. Dr Shahzad Ahmed, who has a PhD in ‘History of Urdu Naat in Pakistan’, says Professor Iqbal Azeem made several attempts to get it corrected but the Kalaam had gotten so popular that nothing worked. Neither did the poet have a Twitter account to call out Naat reciters for the glaring mistake and reach out to the people instantly. His writings and speeches didn’t convince the majority and, ironically, Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi too never wanted to correct this error.


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