muzycy: Ustad Jafar Hussain Khan: lead vocals, harmonium
Rafiq Ahmed: second lead vocals
Wajahat Hussain: tabla & accompanying vocals
Naeem Jafar: accompanying vocals

The practice of music and dance is one of the distinguishing aspects of sufism, the mystical, inward contemplative aspect of Islam. Mystical love is the essence of this and sufi poetry is mystical poetry. In the Indian subcontinent this is sung in a unique form, qawwali. One or two solo vocalists alternate with a chorus, and they are accompanied by instruments such as harmonium, dholak or tabla, and rhythmical handclapping. Jafar Hussain Khan was an acclaimed master of qawwali, and his unexpected death in September 1998 has left a void in the world of qawwali music.