hairaan huaa

hairaan huaa (Urdu: حَیران ہوا, Hindi: हैरान हुआ) "I Became Wonderstruck" or "It Left Me Wonderstruck", is a song featured in Season 12 of the Pakistani music TV show "Coke Studio".

The lyrics of the song probably belong to the XVII-XVIII centuries' Sufi poet Sachal Sarmast, and the music was composed by the contemporary Pakistani singer Abida Parveen.

In the video clip, the song is interpreted by the Pakistani folk singer Sanam Marvi, accompanied by the Coke Studio home band and singers.

It is a Sufi song. As usual with this type of songs, romantic terms and expressions are given a special sense, or double meaning, relating both to earthly love, and to the mystic devotion for a spiritual master, or for God.

A religious image implicit all along the song is when God revealed himself to Moses: the "place where beauty/divinity became manifest"

hameN bhii jalvaa jalvaa-gaah-e-naaz tak lete calo muusaa Moses, take me too to that place where beauty manifests itself

There are also several other word-plays, for example, in Muslim tradition, the Day or Judgement is called sar-ē-haśr, but the word haśr alone means "tumult, riot".

Hence:

tum sar-e-hashr miloge yah sunaa hai jab se Since hearing they would meet you on Judgement Day

tere diivaanoN ne ik hashr uThaa rakhaa hai your crazy lovers have made a tumult

Gamzaa-o-naaz is a seductive, coquettish look. But in Sufism, the "look" of God refers to His ability to alter one's inner life. In the song, this can be interpreted either way.

haq maujuud, sadaa maujuud, "(The true) God is present, always present" is a salutation common among Sufis.

Several Muslim revered mystics, who are Sufis or have ties with Sufism, are mentioned in the song as well:

Mansour Hallaj (858 – 922) (called just "Mansur" in the song) was a Persian mystic, poet, teacher, and Sufi reformer, known for his phrase "I am the truth". The song mentions him repeating this phrase at the time he was executed by hanging: haq! haq!

Shams Al-huq Tabrezi (1185–1248), was a Persian poet believed to have been the mentor of Rumi, who was one of the most famous Sufi poets and mystics.

Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661), (called "Sarmad" in the song) a Persian-speaking Armenian convert, who was a mystic and a poet close to the Sufi tradition, and was known for his outspokenness and heterodoxy.

All 3 mentioned mystics died by execution, hence the reference in the song to "every single one of them sacrificed their heads".

is terii galii meN ai dilbar In your lane, ah, sweetheart!

har ek kaa sar qurbaan huaa every single one of them sacrificed his head