''Bari Nizami'' was a lyricist from

West Punjab West Punjab ( pnb, ; ur, ) was a province in the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. The province covered an area of 159,344 km2 (61523 sq mi), including much of the current Punjab province and the Islamabad Capital Territory, but exclu ...

(Pakistani Punjab).

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ( pa, ; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. He was primarily a singer of qawwali — a form of Sufi devotional music. Sometimes c ...

Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi Attaullah Khan Niazi, SI PP (Urdu, Pashto: ) (born 19 August 1951), known professionally as Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi also known as Lala (meaning "elder brother" in Pashto and Punjabi), is a Pakistani musician from Isakhel, Mianwali, Punjab. ...

Noor Jehan Noor Jehan (Punjabi: ) (born () Allah Rakhi Wasai ; 23 September 1926 – 23 December 2000; sometimes spelled Noorjehan),Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema,'' British Film Institute, Oxford University Press ...

and Ghulam Ali sang his

qawwali Qawwali (Punjabi: (Shahmukhi), (Gurmukhi); Urdu: (Nasta'liq); Hindi: क़व्वाली (Devanagari); Bengali: কাওয়ালি ( Bengali)) is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing, originating from the Indian subcontine ...

s and songs.

Life

Barri Nizami (Birth Name: Sheikh Muhammad Saghir son of Sheikh Ghulam Muhammad) was born on 26 December 1937 in

Gojra Gojra (Punjabi and ur, ), the administrative capital of Gojra Tehsil, is the city of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Gojra is from Faisalabad, from Lahore and north of Toba Tek Singh. Founded in 1896 during the ...

British Punjab Punjab was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 2 April 1849, and declared a province of British Rule, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British co ...

. Gojra now falls under

Toba Tek Singh District Toba Tek Singh District (Punjabi and ur, ) is a district of Faisalabad Division in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located between 30°33' to 31°2' Degree north latitudes and 72°08' to 72°48' Degree longitudes. It became a separate ...

(Pakistani Punjab). He had become friends with

Death

He died on 14 May 1998 due to lack of money for his treatment, as he was very poor.Profile of Bari Nizami on Bio-bibliographies website (in Urdu language)
Retrieved 23 December 2019

Bari Nizami songs by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

His most popular lyrics sung by the legend of Qawwali, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan are below:

* Vigar Gai Ae Thore Dina Taun

* Ranjha Te Mera Rabb Warga

* Ho Jave Je Piyar * Mailey Ne Vichar Jana * Wadah Kar ke Sajjan Nahee Aya * Gin Gin Taare Langhdiya Raata * Kamli walay Muhammad tu Sadqa mein jan * Kinna Sohna Teinu Rab Ne Banaya, Dil Karay Vekhda Rahwan

Book

His poetry was published by a journalist jamil Siraj, Book Name is "QADRAAN".

References

External links

Bari Nizami on IMDb website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nizami, Bari Punjabi-language poets Punjabi-language lyricists 1937 births 1998 deaths People from Faisalabad People from Punjab Province (British India)