There are numerous Qawwalis to be listed. The most listened Qawwalis are Bhardo Jholi Meri Ya Muhammad, Sarela Makan Se Talab Hui, Taajdar-e-Haram, Saqiya Aur Pila. Their Qawwalis are very popular even till today. Their first recording, released in 1958 under the EMI Pakistan label, was a popular hit called Mera Koi Nahin Hai. They became widely acclaimed for their singing. Shortly after, in 1956, Ghulam Farid joined his brother Maqbool Ahmed Sabri Qawwali ensemble, and they came to be known as The Sabri Brothers. Soon after, a wealthy businessman approached him and offered him a partnership in a nightclub, yet Ghulam Farid’s reply was that he only wanted to sing Qawwali, and he rejected the offer. He then joined Ustad Kallan Khan’s Qawwali party. Soon, Ghulam Farid started to mix with a small group of people who appreciated Qawwali. All those days he bore the scars of beatings with wood and stones thrown by his tired, sleepless neighbours and brawls he was in when they were determined to stop him but he would not be deterred and, as time went by, his lungs grew stronger and his magnificent voice was formed. Every night for the next two years, he would have to sit in the middle of the camp for four to five hours making zikr. In despair, he went to his father for advice and the advice he was given was uncompromisingly tough. Release Year: N/A, Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom. Worn out, he was told by a physician that due to the condition of his lungs, he would never again have the strength to sing. Artist: AMJAD GHULAM FAREED SABRI, Type: Album. At night, almost single-handedly, he built his own house, brick by brick, to shelter his family. Ghulam Farid found a job by carrying hods of bricks for the government house building or by breaking rocks to build roads. Malnutrition was rife and brought with it scourges of tuberculosis and dysentery. Conditions in the camp were woeful, food was scarce and expensive, and the rewards for hard work were barely enough to sustain life. Following the Partition of India in 1947, his family was uprooted from their native town and was transported to a refugee camp in Karachi, Pakistan. His first public performance was at the annual Urs festival of the Sufi saint Mubarak Shah in Kalyana in 1946. He was also instructed in the playing of the harmonium.
Ghulam Farid Sabri was instructed in North Indian classical music and Qawwali. Listen to the original and arguably best version below. At the age of six, Ghulam Farid commenced his formal instruction in music under his father, Inayat Sen Sabri. Tajdar-e-Haram is considered a milestone in world of Qawwali Music, and has been subject to renditions by artists including Amjad Ghulam Fareed Sabri, Adnan Sami Khan, and recently by Atif Aslam. However, his mother’s stern rebuke turned him back to his responsibilities. In his youth, he wanted to turn away from the world and live in the wilderness. Haji Ghulam Farid Sabri was raised in Gwalior.