Posted by: samaha | April 30, 2008

Hamza of MacBeth “Dosta Mi Je Allah Moj”

Musical Chef has the same ilahija done by Aziz Alili.  This one is by Hamza of MacBeth (a pop group - I’ll post one of their videos later):

and my very bad translation:

He woke in a hole, solitary confinement he saw
Beautiful Jusuf drew a breath “My Allah is enough for me”

The carters bring thirst, an empty water can they bring
Over the hole they hang: “My Allah is enough for me”

Until Aziz comes down, hard years pass
Unto her hardship: “My Allah is enough for me”

Here comes the happy day and my sad dad
And a happy return from sadness to serenity: “My Allah is enough for me”

Every night gives birth to day, in every nuisance Allah intervenes
To everything there is an end: “My Allah is enough for me”

The sick person seeks a cure, asker her sultan
The adorning seeks their adorned: “My Allah is enough for me”

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Beautiful! Although I think I like Aziz’s version a bit better, this is good too. I’ll have to search for some more of their videos. Thanks for the translation, too; I was wondering what the song was saying. I’m expecting my “I have no cannons that roar” CD in a couple weeks and am hoping the liner notes have translations of the songs.

I agree with your previous post, too. I’m sick of how Muslim men are always blaming either “their” women or the West for everything. What the heck are they contributing to the world?!? Let me know how they’re making the world a better place then maybe I’d listen.

By: musicalchef on May 1, 2008
at 1:41 pm

Aziz Alili’s utilizes the traditional recitational method of ilahije - note the nasally sounding recitation. I have in the past been quite succesful at doing the traditional ilahija because I know the technique to blocking the air from entering my nasal cavity but I can not sing for ****.

Partly because I love music and can not sing and partly because I’m used to hearing Aziz Alili CD’s at my mom’s or in her car I like the Hamza version - it’s a nice change for me. However, because there are instruments in the background of both versions - neither is technically an ilahija in the traditional sense.

As for “I have no cannons that roar” - most of the music seems to be in English. Aziz Alili’s Where are Mecca and Medina seem to be a translation of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEofWTZW0YY Even though from what I can tell the music and voice sounds different - he starts by asking where are mecca and medina while Bosnian blood is spilling and that is the substance of the above link. Oh - and Dino Merlin is on that CD - somewhere on my blog I have a Krazy Bosnians feat which adds some rap to one of his old songs before the war. He’s always been a favorite of mine and I’ve been to two of his concerts in Chicago. Although I’ve heard that he finished gazi husrefbeg’s medresa (and can’t confirm) - he doesn’t do ilahijas but on his site he states that his musical talent must come from his mother and father’s sufi heritage.

By: samaha on May 1, 2008
at 6:09 pm

HaHa, I can sympathize! I took voice lessons but evidently they don’t work miracles!

By: musicalchef on May 2, 2008
at 4:32 pm

Samaha,

Regarding the songs, have you been searching with “the Internet country code top-level domain” for Bosnia? It is “.ba”

I did a quick search for ” Bosanske ilahije” on http://www.google.ba and found some interesting stuff, well, I found it interesting at least. Even though I don’t have the slightest idea what was being said most of the time. :P

As for this song, I would like it better if it didn’t have the sing along part. When it sounds like a group of children are chiming in when he gets to the “dosta mi je Allah moj” part, it sounds sort of artificial to me. But I like the melody and the guitar work.

By: konservo on May 2, 2008
at 4:52 pm

Voice lessons would have been awesome but after my dad paid an unrefundable $75 for a violin rental and then be told by my music teacher that I wasn’t cut out for music(after 2 group lessons - i’m not kidding you) - that just wasn’t going to happen.

Konservo - I never thought to do that and lol - yeah - I know about .ba - I have a bosnian blog on blogger.ba but never thought to do a google search that way. You know - I’m going to start wondering pretty soon if you are secretly Bosnian or perhaps Croatian - hehe.

I can see what you’re saying about the sing along part although I kind of like it too - maybe a little less frequent would have been better.

By: samaha on May 2, 2008
at 10:59 pm

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