Amjad Farid Sabri was a famous Pakistani Qawwal and Naat khawan. He was was born in 1976 and was shot dead in Karachi on 22nd June 2016, in Ramadan. He was the son of renowned Qawwal Ghulam Farid Sabri and was the nephew of Maqbool Ahmed Sabri of the famous ‘Sabri Brothers alliance’. Amjad Sabri made a substantial name through his live Qawali singing. He was one of the most well-known Qawwals of South Asia. After his tragic death, his son Mujaddid Amjad Sabri took up his father’s legacy of Qawwali recitation and is now successfully doing live shows.
Lately, Mujaddid Amjad Sabri made an appearance in Nadir Ali’s podcast along with Junaid Jamshed’s son Babur. They both remembered their fathers. Mujaddid shared interesting details of his father’s close encounter with robbers in India.
Talking about it, Mujaddid Amjad said, “Amjad Sabri had to reach Delhi from another city Jhansi in India (where he was performing the show), because he had to catch his flight to Lahore in Delhi but the audience in Jhansi didn’t let him go and he kept on reciting for the whole night, the event extended for three more hours. It was late night and locals stopped him from road trip but he planned it. They stopped at a tea stall at night, the tea stall owners were already playing Bhar Do Jholi when Baba’s driver introduced him to tea stall owners that this song is by Amjad Sabri’s father and he himself is a big Qawwal. They made him sat there and made tea for him, the dangerous robbers were also sitting nearby him and upon knowing about him, they came to him, greeted him, heard Qawali and gave gifts as well, not only this, they also guided him to take safe routes from this area because the decoits and robbers are hiding in the bushes because it is their time of robbery”. Here is the link to the video:
