Saturday, 2 November 2013

HAMEIN ITNA BATADÉ BHAGVAAN, YAHAN MARTA HÈ KYUN INSAAN?

HAMEIN ITNA BATADÉ BHAGVAAN, YAHAN MARTA HÈ KYUN INSAAN?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyoRTxhsh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3pwQ1-GAU8

DR TARIQ RAMADAN DUA'H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-jYeB89s_0

Mohd Rafi Rerecorded By Naushad - Jis Raat Ke Khwab Aaye - Muhammad Rafi AsianAirRadio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCu6lsWRBf8&index=17&list=RDoDkqsmSNYLU

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Published on 28 Jun 2011

Radio Asian Air - Mohammad Rafi

Background information
Born 24 December 1924
Kotla Sultan Singh, Punjab, British India
Origin India
Died 31 July 1980 (aged 55)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Genres Indian classical, ghazal, playback singing
Occupations Hindi and Punjabi playback singer
Instruments Vocalist
Years active 1944--1980

Mohammad Rafi (Urdu: محمد رفیع; 24 December 1924 -- 31 July 1980), was an North Indian playback singer whose career spanned four decades.[1]

He won a National Award and 6 Filmfare Awards. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.[2]

In a career spanning about 40 years, Rafi sang over 26,000 film songs.[3]

His songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans, and from slow melancholic tunes to fast and melodious fun filled songs. He had a strong command of Hindi and Urdu and a powerful range that could accommodate this variety.[4]

He sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Konkani, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese. He also recorded a few English, Persian, Spanish and Dutch songs.An article in Times of India, published on 24 July 2010 sums up his voice as, "If there are 101 ways of saying "I love you" in a song, Mohammed Rafi knew them all. The awkwardness of puppy love, the friskiness of teen romance, the philosophy of unrequited love and the anguish of heartbreak - he could explore every crevice of ardour. It wasn't just love, his voice could capture the navras of life - a failed poet's melancholy, a fiery unionist's vim, a debt-ridden farmer's despair, really anybody at all. Rafi, whose career spanned nearly four decades, was a singer for every season and every reason."[5]

Category
- Music

HEY RAAM BARI DER BHAYI
By Muhammad Rafi - BASANT BAHAR 1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW547V_wmyc&list=RDFW547V_wmyc#t=306

I wish to see not only tears for the victims of US, UK, EU and Israeli endless wars of extermination and exploitation, but also some positive actions!

(AND I WAITED IN VAIN AND SAW NO POSITIVE ACTIONS AND MORE MENDACITY AND COLLABORATION WITH THE SATANIC FORCES!
Friday 8 August 2014)

Violinist, Nancy Dinovo, cries while playing during a service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for the September 11 victims.

Violinist%2C%20Nancy%20Dinovo%2C%20cries%20while%20playing%20during%20a%20service%20at%20Christ%20Church%20Cathedral%20in%20downtown%20Vancouver%20for%20the%20September%2011%20victims.

Lady of the World O Beirut - Ya Sitt a Dunia Ya Beirut
Majida el Roumi (English subtitles)

Adalberto Erazo

Today Sunday 3rd November 2013 at 2:22 PM

"Even though I didn't understand I want to thank you for providing the very beautiful Hindustani songs by Mohammed Rafi. These songs make us understand the pain the Islamic world is in. I could have sworn that I read or saw somewhere that it was the British who spread the lie that Babri Masjid was built over Ram Temple during the 1800's. It was this lie that sowed the seeds of divide and hatred between Hindus and Muslims that exists to this day. The Babri Masjid demolition was essentially the prototype that would be used in the coming destruction of Masjid Al-Aqsa should the Zionist entity get it's way."
Adalberto Erazo Jr.

True, but the hatred was sown long before that and as soon as the British Devils landed on Hindustani soil. It was planned by Freemasons and Dutch Khazari Talmudists aka "Jews". Wherever those sons of the Devil, the Synagogue of Satan landed they immediately took possession of the lands in the name of heir monarchs, Colombus, Cook, etc. There was never any independence; all was bogus. It was just divide and rule as usual. Remember how Rabbi Mountbatten sold his wife to the Atheist drug addict (chain smoker) Socialite Nehru, son of a Freemason, and allowed him to have sex with her as long as he wished upon one condition: that he took Kashmir immediately after the fake and ridiculous independence (neo-colonial pact!) was concluded and pronounced and allowed the slaughter of more than one million Hindustanis, mostly Muslims.

The British also trained professional assassins (cutthroats) called Gurkhas and also among Sikhs to slaughter Muslims, Indo-Chinese and Chinese at will - to CUT THEIR THROATS just as they have today trained Blackwater-Xe and the bogus "Al-Qaeda" mercenaries and sodomisers to do exactly the same kind of filthy and Satanic job. Many thanks, love, for your very valuable contribution. I'll try to translate a little more of the lyrics. Anybody can see how the Colonialists and Imperialists destroyed our cultures, languages and even religions. Today, I cannot even speak or understand the mother tongue of my Hindustani ancestors! They have done the same with all Muslims around the world including in Arab countries.

Muhammad Rafi is unique in the history of Hindustani, Hindi and Urdu poetry, religious, romantic and other kinds of songs, unlike many Zionist Hindutva racists we find today.

[Basheer]

O Sansaar Banané waalé!
Ho sabké Bhagvaan!
Tujhé na aaï laaj tchiin kar,
Ek kali ké praan.
Ho o o

Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan!
Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan!
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan?
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan?

O Creator of the Worlds !

You are the Creator of us all!

Why are humans being exterminated here on Earth ?

Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan! Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan?

RATAN MANZARI - By Muhammad Rafi

Allah Ki Nazron Mein Barabar Hain Sab Insaan by Muhammad Rafi - Film INSAAF

Tu dékar, kyun létaa hè jaan?
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan?
Haaé ! Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan ?

You give us Life, why do You take it away ?

O God, why are humans being exterminated here on Earth ?

Tu hi maati sé putla banaata hè.
Tu hi maati sé putla banaata hè.
Kaï rango sé usko sajaata hè.
Phir bannaakar mitaaée mein, O Devta !
Aa aa aa

We make idols of You.

We make it colourful.

Then, we destroy them, O God!

Phir banaakar mitaané mein, O Devta !
Kaun si hè bari téri Shaan ?

Who is greater than You ?

Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan !
Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan !
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan ?
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan ?

O God, why are humans being exterminated here on Earth ?

Tu dékar, kyun létaa hè jaan ?
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan ?
Haaé ! Yahaan marta hai kyun insaan ?

You give us Life, why do You take it away ?

O my God !

O God, why are humans being exterminated here on Earth ?

Tujhé Bhagvaan honé ka abhimaan hè.
Tujhé Bhagvaan honé ka abhimaan hè.
Sabhi dukhiyon ké dukh sé Tu anjaan hè.
Jab na aati hè tujhko kisi par dayaa ?
Aa aa aa

Jab na aati hè tujhko kisi par dayaa ?
Kaahé kehlaayé karunanidhaan ?

Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan !
Hamein itna bataa dé Bhagvaan !
Yahaan marta hè kyun insaan ?

Sung by Muhammad Rafi in Hindustani film « Ratna Manjri » 1955

Lyrics: B.D. Mishra

Music Director: S.N. Tripathi

'READERS' are invited to send in the translation of the above lyrics. Thanks.

Listen also to the song “Ye Dunya” from the Film - Yahudi 1958
Music Director - Shankar-Jaikishan,
Lyrics - Shailendra,
Singer – Muhammad Rafi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0IjwiNyipo

This is a world of Satan where innocent human life is very cheap!

The above English text is not a translation of the lyrics, and it does not really matter whether God exists or not; EVIL DOES, and Believers are too fanatical and are hypocrites and cowards, unwilling to make any sacrifice for the Common Good, and are selfish materialists and hypocritical about their own faith, and they are the roots of all our calamities as they have joined forces with the Devils – voting with them and for them and for their Satanic sewage systems, and serving them as real “house Niggers”!

The British Devils came to our land of Hindustan where Vedantists, Muslims, Sikhs and Parsis lived in peace and harmony, stole the land and wealth, exterminated millions, and sowed the seeds of racism and hatred (their usual tactics) between “Hindus” (Hindu is not a religion, but Vedanta is), Parsis, Sikhs, Qadianis (Ahmadis, Mirzais) and Muslims, and mercilessly divided the land to benefit more “Hindus” and Sikhs and certainly not Muslims. Today Hindustan has been made a pork eating, alcohol drinking, gambling, fornicating, homosexual loving, racist, western monkeying and child murdering nation.

The Devils and Israel (including Communists and Maoists) have exterminated millions of Muslims around the world, and after helping the “Hindus” under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to recruit, finance and support indoctrinated Bengali assassins from “East Pakistan” to fight “West Pakistan” (both entities of their own abominable creation) and cause “East Pakistan” to secede from “West Pakistan” (their original Satanic plan!), making it a slave nation for cheap labour for Western corporations, they, as well as the “Hindu” leadership, are still exterminating both “Pakistanis”, Hindustani and Afghani Muslims on a daily basis despite of the fact that treacherous “Pakistan” helped the American Devils to butcher, maim and starve Afghanis by the millions!

Now, the Khazar Satanists or Talmudists falsely posing as “Jews” and “Semites” are demanding that America nuclear bomb Iran (Persia) while together with the help, finances and support of Satanic Europe, America, Australia, Canada, the UN and other Allies they are exterminating Palestinians, nomadic Arabs (in the Negev Desert where Israel is manufacturing in absolute freedom its weapons of mass destruction, nuclear and other), Irakis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, Sudanese, Somalis and other Muslim people around the globe!

Basheer Ahmad

Saturday 2^nd of November 2013

Happy Eid, Happy Divali, Happy Halloween, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Crusades and Happy Genocide 10014, 6014, 2014 or whatever, you foolish Earthlings!

Mujhe apni sharan mein

le lo Raam

Sung by Muhammad Rafi

Film Tulsidas 1954

Music Chitragupta

Hindu-Muslim before Zionist Apartheid India

http://muhammad-ali-ben-marcus.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/hommage-to-muhammad-rafi.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXiQa92P74

Nasir's Eclectic Blog

This Blog is mainly a Tribute to the Legendary Indian Playback Singer, Mohammed Rafi (1924-1980) whose rich tonal voice, crystal clear intonations, versatility, along with his unique renditions of the soul-uplifting, heart-wrenching, and breezy songs in thousands, continue to attract the older and the newer generations day by day. This Blog transliterates and translates his songs into English for wider appreciation. The Blog will also publish posts on his life and times, and on other topics.

575. Rafi's Philosophical Song: Daulat ke jhooThe nashe mein ho choor...

Movie: OONCHI HAVELI (1955)
Lyrics: Bharat Vyas
Music: Pandit Shivram
Main Movie-Hall where first released in Bombay: Lamington Cinema.

Philosophical/Didactic Song of Rafi: 1955 Chartbuster: Daulat ke jhooThe nashe mein ho choor..
Roman Transliteration/English Translation of the original Hindi Lyrics:

daulat ke jhooThe nashe mein ho choor,
SLOSHED WITH FALSE INTOXICATION OF AFFLUENCE,

ghareebon kee duniyaa se rehte ho duur,
YOU STAY AWAY FROM THE POORMAN’S WORLD,

ajee ek din, aisaa aayegaa
HEY, SUCH A DAY WILL COME

jab maaTii mein sab mil jaayegaa,
WHEN ALL WILL MINGLE WITH THE DUST,

maaTii hee ourawan,
‘TIS ONLY THE DUST THAT IS THE COVERING,

maaTii bichhawan,
THE DUST IS THE BEDDING,

maaTee ka tann ban jaayegaa
THE BODY WILL TURN INTO DUST,

maaTii mein sab mil jaayegaa...
ALL WILL MINGLE WITH THE DUST...

oonche aasmaan se bhii oonchee teree aas hai,
HIGHER THAN THE HIGH HEAVEN IS YOUR DESIRE,

par kabhii sochaa nahiin,
HAVE YOU EVER PONDERED

gintii kii terii saas hai,
YOU’VE A LIMITED BREATH,

is kaa tuu hisaab kar,
MAKE AN ACCOUNT OF IT,

angooThaa ungliyon pe dhar,
KEEP THE THUMB ON THE FINGERS,

kitnii kharch kar rahaa bhalaayii mein,
HOW MUCH ARE YOU SPENDING IN BENEFICENCE?

kitnii tuu lagaa rahaa buraayii mein,
HOW MUCH ARE YOU USING FOR WICKEDNESS?

bhalaayee ka phal reh jaayegaa,
FRUITS OF DOING GOOD WILL ABIDE,

baaqee maaTii me.n sab mil jaayegaa,
REST WILL ALL MINGLE WITH THE DUST,

maaTii hii ourhan,
‘TIS ONLY THE DUST THAT IS THE COVERING,

maaTii bichhawan,
THE DUST IS THE BEDDING,

maaTii ka tann ban jaayegaa
THE BODY WILL TURN INTO DUST,

maaTii mein sab mil jaayegaa...
ALL WILL MINGLE WITH THE DUST...

oo.nchee haveli yeh oo.nche mahal, AAAA~~~
THE TOWERING MANSION, THESE GRAND PALACES,

oo.nchee haveli yeh oo.che mahal,
THE TOWERING MANSION, THESE GRAND PALACES,

pal bhar me.n jaaye.nge pagle badal,
WILL GET TRANSFORMED IN AN INSTANT O FOOL,

le tuu kisee kee duaao.n ka phal~~~,
TAKE THE FRUIT OF SOMEONE’S BLESSINGS,

badee se Tal, aur nekee pe chal,
AVOID EVIL, TREAD THE RIGHTEOUS PATH,

jaisaa boyegaa waisaa paayegaa,
AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP,

baaqee maaTee me.n sab mil jaayegaa,
REST WILL ALL MINGLE WITH THE DUST,

daulat ke jhooThe nashe me.n ho choor,
SLOSHED WITH FALSE INTOXICATION OF AFFLUENCE,

ghareebo.n kee duniyaa se rehte ho duur,
YOU STAY AWAY FROM THE POORMAN’S WORLD,

ajee ek din, aisaa aayegaa
HEY, SUCH A DAY WILL COME

jab maaTee me.n sab mil jaayegaa,
WHEN ALL WILL MINGLE WITH THE DUST,

maaTii hii orhan,
‘TIS ONLY THE DUST THAT IS THE COVERING,

maaTee bichhawan,
THE DUST IS THE BEDDING,

maaTee ka tann ban jaayegaa
THE BODY WILL TURN INTO DUST,

maaTii mein sab mil jaayegaa...
ALL WILL MINGLE WITH DUST...

daulat ke jhooThe nashe me.n ho choor. AAA~~~~
SLOSHED WITH FALSE INTOXICATION OF AFFLUENCE.

NASIR (slightly edited by BAFS).

About me NASIR

Gender	Male
Industry	Human Resources
Location	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Introduction	Earning and learning since the school days, I got my little education in a very hard way but of which I'm justly proud. A firm believer that God is the Provider, I look up to him for even little help. If it were not for HIM, I would've been nowhere. Personal experiences have only strengthened my belief. Believing in the innate goodness of humanity, my motto is: Live and Let Live. I also believe that the pain and suffering of mankind, the killings of fellow human beings are the result of greed, egotistic tendencies, and lack of mercy in some bigoted people. I like reading, singing, translating hindi filmy songs into English, travelling, love picnics, and wish that Life was one Big Picnic which never ended. I'm an ardent fan of the Legendary Indian playback singer, Mohammed Rafi, whose rich, versatile and emotions-inducing voice has enthralled me down the decades and it's his songs that I attempt to translate into English in my Blog, which in turn is a learning process for me since my knowledge of Urdu is negligible and that of English only fair.
Interests	Watching old movies, listening Rafi's numbers, Reading non-fiction, travelling, Singing filmy songs, Karate, and what not.
Favourite Films	Deedar, Ram Aur Shyam, Ganga Jamuna, Gopi, Mashaal, Vidhata, Professor, Junglee, Tumse Achcha Kaun Hai, Teesri Manzil, Dil Deke Dekho, Spartacus, A Man called Horse, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, The Bible, Sound of Music, Enter the Dragon, Cleopatra, Exorcist, The Omen, Crimson Pirate, The Shining, Wolf, Samson and Delilah, The Patriot, Last of the Mohican, The Message, Guns of Navarone, Come September, Basic Instinct, Fastest Gun Alive, Man Hunt, Sitting Bull, Apache, The Last Sunset, The Message, Leaving Las Vegas, Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Madhubala, Nutan, Glenn Ford, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Harrison Ford, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, Elisabeth Shue, Sharon Stone, Audrey Hepburn, Sandra Bullock, Ann Baxter, Ava Gardener, Dorris Day
Favourite Music	Mohammed Rafi, old Filmy (indian) music, Shankar-Jaikishen, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Naushad, Mohammed Rafi, Elvis Priesley, Cliff Richard, The Beatles, Connie Francis, Ricky Nelson, the title music of Come September, Billy Vaughn.
Favourite Books	Qur'an, Islamic Literatures, Kashful Mahjub, Fatah Al-Ghaib, Ana'l Haq, Ihya Uloomudeen, Tazkirat-Al-Awliya, English literature, Shakespeare, Wurthering Heights, Duchess of Malfi, Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, James Hadley Chase, Ian Fleming, Erle Stanley Gardner, Translated short stories, Guy De Maupassant, Les Miserables, Marie Correlli, Thousand and One Nights, The Maharaja, Hatim Tai, Betal Pachisi, Kama Sutra, Perfumed Garden, Qabus Namah, Nancy Friday, Greek Mythology, The Illiad, Non-fiction books on self-improvement including, Your Erroneous Zone, Believing is Seeing, Living Learning and Learning, etc. John Wayne Dyer, Napolean Hill, Leo Buscaglia, etc.

Hé Maalik

Téré Bandé Ham

Do Ankhen Barah Haath [1957]

Kala Ankur - "Kachchi Mitti"- Anshita & Group

O Duniya ke rakhwale Guitar by Cleetus George (Muhammad Rafi song from 1952 Film "Baiju Bawra"))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXilJVZna7M&index=16&list=PLm05cALn5aYtSMFWbMJHW7wbVAxOF2dY0

Stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hu1Ig53AF4

FRÉMAUX SOORMALLY

By far the best instrumental of this heavenly song! There is some sweetness that is wonderfully captured by the guitar in the manner it is played.

After Muhammad Rafi I head only one person who sang that song with his heart and soul, an unnamed Afghani person.

BAFS

Béqarar hè koï, aaa è méré dildaar aaa
Suraiya & Mohammad Rafi Film Shama Parwana..

Published on 11 Mar 2011

SHAMA PARWANA (1954)
SHAMMI KAPOOR, SURAIYA, SUNDER, MUBARAK,
ROOPMALA, SUNDER, ULHAS
Produced By: KASHYAP PRODUCTIONS
Directed By: D. D. KASHYAP
Music By: HUSNLAL BHAGATRAM
LOVE STORY, GOOD MUSIC ****

Music
- "
  Béqarar hè koï (From "Shama Parwana")" by Suraiya, Mohd. Rafi ( • )
FRÉMAUX SOORMALLY 4 days ago (edited)- (5 September 2015)

I love and listen to songs since my childhood up to my 70th year on this Earth - in English, French, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Bosnian, etc. But, I spend all my nights listening to Hindustani (Urdu and Hindi) songs of OLD (not modern!) and I never found more beautiful and soul moving songs than these old gems. And without diminishing the merits of other singers, both male and female, Muhammad Rafi stands out and is unique.

As Lata Mangeshkar said once, Rafi is God-gifted. But, instead of sharing this to the world, the Hindustani modernists have adopted the Western way of popular culture. Old Indian films were bad enough although with exceptional poetry, music, lyrics and voices, but modern songs are FAKE and do not move souls anymore as Indian humanity has lost its soul as the rest of the world!

I will die listening to OLD Hindustani songs although I understand only a few words. This one song comes straight from a Heavenly Paradise although I do not believe in the one taught and promised by some religions.

BAFS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KikDiyzu0s&list=RDoDkqsmSNYLU&index=5

Biography-A Tribute To Mohammed Rafi On 30th Death Anniversary

TheGoldenRafi

Uploaded on 14 Sep 2010

A Tribute To Mohammed Rafi On 30th Death Anniversary.Even After 30 Years He Is Alive In Our Hearts Through His Songs And Beautiful Voice.We Love Mohammed Rafi. ForeverThis Video Doesn't Belong To ME.The Golden Rafi Just Remembering Rafi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDkqsmSNYLU&list=RDoDkqsmSNYLU&index=1

Talks About Mohammed Rafi sahab

RAFI SAID:

1. Always lower your gaze

2. Do not argue with anybody

3. Display the best of characters

4. Without God's Will nothing happens.

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TheDeepakp 1 year ago

Film cast: Shammi Kapoor, Suraiya, Sunder Mubarak, Roopmala, Ulhas Singer: Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Suraiya, Nirmala Lyricist: Majrooh Sultanpuri Music Director: Husanlal Bhagatram Film Director: D D Kashyap

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Consultant Anesthesiologist 2 years ago

There could have been two reasons for the taking of Rafi's breath. 1. Female singers normally have a long breath than males. This has been apparent from various songs' duets. 2. Rafi wanted a variey as in the 2nd alaap he tooka breath before the last part, while in 3rd he took it even just after the middle. 3. Surraya was a more establshed & senior singer at that time. Rafi never had breath problem, otherwise he could never have sung 'O'Duniya key rakhwaley' which is one of the most difficult1

Nasir's Eclectic Blog

Saturday, September 24, 2016

WHEN RAFI SAHAAB SAT SINGING ON THE FOOT-PATH OF BANDRA!

We all know about the golden voice of Mohammed Rafi Sahaab (1924-1980) who was the most versatile playback singer of the Hindi screen. Among the thousands of his songs of various genres, there are also many heart-rending numbers that convey the plight of the poor. In fact, these songs have kept alive the memory of those movies which otherwise would have long been foregotten.

That Rafi Sahaab had a golden heart as well is also generally acknowledged and there are countless stories of how he helped the people in financial distress or how he doled out money for charity. Incredulous as it may sound, here’s another story by an eye-witness, one Jaffer Wali, who has written about seeing Mohammed Rafi singing on the footpath to raise money for charity. Jaffer Wali was a Std.V kid at that time. Based on his information, I am hereby presenting an abridged version in my own words:

Rafi Sahaab never used to miss his Friday prayers which he offered in the BaRee Masjid at Bandra. Once, after the Friday prayers, Rafi sahaab as usual walked past the famous Lucky Restaurant down to the petrol-pump to hail a taxi for home. There he was accosted by three persons of the Sikh community. They told him that they had come from the Guru Nanak Charity Clinic which was located on the Station Road, Bandra. They needed some donation immediately. Now, right on the road, Rafi Sahaab had nothing with him. Even the coins that he used to carry in his handkerchief while leaving for prayers had already been distributed to the wayside needy people. What was he to do? The enterprising Rafi Sahaab didn’t lose his heart. He took the Sardars along with him towards the Riyaz Restaurant on the Station Road where old KabbaRi shops existed. There, from one of the shops he borrowed a harmonium. Notwithstanding his immaculate white churidar pajama, white kurta and a white skull-cap he sat down on the footpath under the shade of a tree. For about 15 minutes he played the harmonium, fine-tuning it. By this time a large crowd had gathered. Then Rafi Sahaab began to sing to the immense pleasure of the crowd. He sang three songs. After each song he would ask the listeners to donate generously in the name of Allah. The people in the crowd willingly gave what they had in their pockets. Soon coins and currency notes were piled up before him. He asked for a sack and the money thus collected was put in the sack. Then Rafi Sahaab handed over the entire half-full sack of money to the three Sardars who were stunned by Rafi Sahaab’s humility as well as his helpful and resourceful nature. They thanked him profusely and happily departed from the scene. That’s it!

While on the subject, it would be appropriate to list some of the songs that have come to be termed as “the Beggars’ Delight”. These songs were commonly sung by beggars and street urchins who begged for money on the streets of Mumbai and in the local trains. Since those songs were popular, the beggars did a brisk business. I especially remember the Vachan’s number, O babu O babu O jaane waale babu ek paisa dede… that was popular for decades together. One of the songs even talk about the plight of the Rich. I call these songs as Rich Man-Poor Man Rafi’s Tributes”.