Updated On: 10 November, 2016 10:28 AM IST | | Joanna Lobo
<p>Ahead of her performance at Sama'a this weekend, artiste Rekha Bhardwaj gets candid about Sufi music, whirling and singing for Gulzar</p>


What can we expect at your concert?
The concert will feature only Sufiyana songs. There will be a traditional Qawwali in Punjabi, my favourite version of a Mehr Ali and Sher Ali qawwali. I got the lyrics corrected by friends from Pakistan. I’ve also composed a few zikr (rhythmic repetition of the name of God) and kalma (La ilaha illa'llah Muhammad Rasulullah), and two verses of a Sarmad (a Sufi saint, martyr and poet). They are reflections of my evenings spent in a sama (Sufi ceremony) last December in Konya, Turkey. A sanyasi friend of mine will be whirling on stage with me.