Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni

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"Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni

چھاپ تلک سب چھینی

छाप तिलक सब छीनी रे"
Song by Amir Khusro
Genre Sufi music
Songwriter(s) Amir Khusrow

Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni, is a Ghazal written and composed by Amir Khusro, a 14th-century Sufi mystic, in Western Indian language Braj Bhasha. Due to the resonance of its melody and mystical lyrics, it is frequently heard in Qawwali concerts across Indian Subcontinent. [1] Chaapp Tilak Sab Chheeni is considered as Amir Khusru‘s most known Kalam which is basically a penned version of his imagination of devotion and the joy of oneness with the eternal one. This poetry is an epic example where an inherent middle eastern art form gets entangled with the Indic philology, custom and art a unique twist between the two artforms. This kind of devotion is rarely seen in Islamic ghazals and qawwalis preceding it. This poetry is a great example of the role both cultures played to create this Ghazal and Qawwali which has a unique essence combining both Indic and Islamic culture which inherently created a new unique art form which contributed to the early beginnings of the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb culture to be developed. [2]

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The theme of the composition, being the absolute power of a mere glance from the Divine, is a central theme in sufi mystic literature.[ citation needed ]

This poem has been sung in Qawwali format by notable Pakistani and Indian Qawwals, including Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Naheed Akhtar, Mehnaz Begum, Abida Parveen, Sabri Brothers, [3] Iqbal Hussain Khan Bandanawazi, Farid Ayaz & Abu Muhammad Qawwal, Ustad Jafar Hussain Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, [4] Ustad Shujaat Khan, Zila Khan, Abida Parveen, Nizami Bandhu, Hadiqa Kiani, Smita Bellur, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, , Kailash Kher, Kavita Seth and Maithili Thakur

Text and translation

English Nastaliq Devanagari Latin Transliteration
You've taken away my identity (prayer callus, zabiba, tilak, tika), and everything from me by looking into my eyes.
You've said the unsaid (agam = secrets of divine nature), just by a glance.
By making me drink the love of devotion.
You've intoxicated me by just a glance;
My fair, delicate wrists with green bangles on them,
Have been taken off by you with just a glance.
I give my life to you, Oh my cloth-dyer,
You've dyed me like yourself, by just a glance.
I give my whole life to you Oh, Nizam (Nizamuddin Auliya)
You've made me your bride, by just a glance.
You've said the wonder, by just a glance.
چھاپ تلک سب چھینی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
بات اگم کہہ دینی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
پریم بھٹی کا مدھوا پلائیکے
متوالی کر لينی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
گوری گوری بياں، ہری ہری چوڑیاں
بياں پکڑ ہر لينی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
بل بل جاؤں میں تورے رنگ رجوا
اپنی سی رنگ دينی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
خسرو نظام کے بل بل جائے
موہے سہاگن کر دینی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
چھاپ تلک سب چھینی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
بات عجب کہہ دینی رے موسے نینا ملائیکے
छाप तिलक सब छीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
बात अगम कह दीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
प्रेम भटी का मधवा पिलाइके
मतवाली कर लीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
गोरी गोरी बईयाँ, हरी हरी चूड़ियाँ
बईयाँ पकड़ हर लीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
बल बल जाऊं मैं तोरे रंग रजवा
अपनी सी रंग दीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
ख़ुसरो निजाम के बल बल जाए
मोहे सुहागन कीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
बात अजब कह दीनी रे मोसे नैना मिलाइके
Chaāp tilak sab chhīnī re mose nainā milāike
Bāt agam keh dīnī re mose nainā milāike
Prem bhaṭī kā madhvā pilāike
Matvālī kar līnī re mose nainā milāike
Gorī gorī baīyān, harī harī chuṛiyān
Baīyān pakaṛ har līnī re mose nainā milāike
Bal bal jāūn main tore rang rajvā
Apnī sī rang dinī re mose nainā milāike
Khusro nizaam ke bal bal jaiye
Mohe suhāgan kīnī re mose nainā milāike
Bāt ajab keh dīnī re mose nainā milāike

The 1978 Bollywood film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki featured a version by Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. Another popular version, by Abida Parveen and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, appeared on the Pakistani musical variety show Coke Studio. [5] Other Indian films which include the ghazal include Saat Uchakkey (2016) where it is sung by Keerthi Sagathia (composed by Bapi–Tutul), [6] Unpaused (2020) - composed by Shishir A Samant and sung by Samant and Sunil Kamath. [7] The song has maintained its popularity over the years, being regularly heard on television talent shows in India and Pakistan, and on social media as well.

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