Samajh samajhna samajh ke samjho
Samajh samajhna bhi ek samajh hai
Aur samajh samajh ke kyun na samjhe
Meri samajh mein woh nasamajh hai

Lutf e mai tujhse kya kahun naadaan
Haaye kambakht tu ne pee hi nahin
Arrey mai udane waali
Yeh maikash udane waale hain,
Ek do nahin, chaudah pilaane waale hain

Batlaaye deta hun tujhe maikhaano’n ka pata
Batahao, Kazmain Khorasan, Saamarra
Khurshid muda’a mera burj e sharaf mein hai,
Ek saqi Karbala mein mera, ek  Najaf main hai,
Haaye kambakht

Sarmad ne tau yeh elaan kiya
Hum sar ko kata kar peete hain
Tabrez ne di hans kar yeh sada
Hum khaal khinchakar peete hain

Musaa ne kaha kya peete ho
Hum hosh udakar peete hain
Peena ta unhi ka hi peena hai
Jo arsh pe jaakar peete hain

Sarkaar e jahan mehboob e khuda
Ke naaz o niyam ke paalon se
Mahshar mein jo hain Kausar ke dhani
Un Kaali kamaliyan waalon se
Peene ka tareeqa   Ai waiz
Jaa pooch Ali ke laalon se
Jo sabr o raza ke bande hain
Woh Khoon mein naha kar peete hain
Farmaaya laee’ino’n se Shah ne
Kya humko kami thi paani ki
Dikhlaayi musalle ke neeche
Ek nehar thi jaari paani ki
Ghabraaye sitamgar tab saare
Jab dekhi rawaani paani ki
Shabbir  ne tab hans kar farmaaya
Yeh baat tujhe dikhlaani thi
Dosakh se hum apne Nana ki ummat ko chuda kar peete hain

Barsaat bint-e-raavi-o-jamna-o-neelganjj…
Bean-o-sarod-o-barbat-o-aud-o-rubab-o-chang…
Tambora-o-rubana-o-taoof-o-jaltarang…
Sher-o-sharab, shahid-o-shehnaz, raqs-o-rung…
Barsat ki hawa-e-muattar ka’ waasta…
Mai’khana khool saqi-e-kausar ka wasta…

saaqi datti hoii hai kharabatioN ki saff’
pheala howa hai abr-e-guharbar har taraf
Botall ka kaag khool utha’ kaif barr-e-daf…
Laa’ baad-e-Madinah-o-paemana-e-Najaf

Tatheer ki rida hai falak pe tani huyi
Aur de daaman e Rasool mein chani huyi
Haaye kambakht tu ne pee hi nahin

Mere sher’on ke haqeeqat mein naa maa’ni samjha
Baada e haq ko tu angoor ka paani samjha
Tu nahin jaanta
Arbaab e tareeqat ke usool
Tere behooda sawaalaat  sarasar hain fizool
Tu nahin jaanta paimana kisse kahte hain
Tu nahin jaanta maikhaana kisse kahte hain

Aur istalahaat e tasawwuf ki nahin tujhko khabar
Khatr ki raah mein  milta jahan hai kaif e nazar

Oh chashmi? –  khoti khari lagti hai
Mae e  irfaani tujhe
lal pari lagti hai
Haaye kambakht tu ne pee hi nahin

Aur ahle daanish ne tere zehan ko kaisa samjha
Baada e sher ko jis dam tu ne tharra samjha
Mae e tauheed ki maine tau wazahat ki thi
Tu naa samjhe arrey nadaan yeh  qismat teri
Rumi o hafez o Khayyam ka dekha hai kalaam
Jaam o meena ke libaade mein tareeqat thi tamaam
Naaseha tujhko, Naseehat ke siwa nahin  kaam
Jaam mein garq naa kar tu tau mera naam hi nahi

Allah ki inaayat hai ke main saif zabaan hu
Aur naaseh main tere waaste koh e gara’an hun
Tanqeed mein taameer thi
Iss waaste main chup tha
Warna samajh le main Aziz mian hun

But what is a qawwali?
Its a genre which has its origin in India and is most popular in the sub continent.
Sufi ‘sama mehfils’ always used music as a means of inducing trance – ‘haal’.
Those who go into state of ‘haal’ trance and dance are very popularly known as the Whirling Dervish.

There are various stories about the origin of qawwali. I give one below.
Be as it may it was developed by Hazrat Amir Khusrau from the Prophets qaul.
It is narrated that Hazrat Amir Khusrau went to the khanqah of Hazrat Bu Ali Shah Qalandar , who asked him to sing something in praise of Amirul Momineen Hazrat Ali.Hazrat Bu Ali Shah was a famous Chisti sufi saint.Amir Khusrau obeyed Hazrat Bu Qalander and set Rasool e Khuda, pbuh s qaul to music
Note : Qaul literally means a saying and this name is bestowed to the sayings of the Prophet pbuh.

The most popular qaul of the Prophet
“Man kunto maula,
Fa haza Ali-un maula ”
”whoever accepts me as a maul (master), Ali is his master too”.
was set to music by the genius Amir Khusrau on the spot. He added the famous tarana

“Dara dil-e dara dil-e dar-e daani.
Hum tum tanana nana, nana nana ray
Yalali yalali yala, yala ray “

to give body and soul to the music and help to induce a trance.

I have 13 versions of Man Kunto Maula and my favourite versions are by Aziz Mian, Abida Parween, Ustad Shujaat Hussain and Abbas Ali Khan.
Amir Khusrau was entrusted with the work of developing Qawwali as a complete form of music and he selected 12 young students whom he called qawwal bachcha. It is through them that he presented Qaul Qalbana and other forms of Qawwali.
Munshi Raziuddin and his sons Farid Ayaz and Abu mohamed are descendants from those qawwal bachchas
Farid Ayaz and Abu Mohammed
Famous scions of the Qawwal bachcha also include Ustad Bahauddin Khan Qawwal and Ustad Meraj Ahmed Nizami