I think this is a good song and video. Am I right or am I right?

Ya'qub —

Forum

Ya'qub — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 - 20:47

[quote="Amal"]mashaAllah Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam songs back in the day had some decent lyrics and beauty, which todays music lacks with all the manufactured clap-trap that the next person comes out with.. :--//[/quote]

its originally a christian hymn from the 1920s or sometime around then

Imaani — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 - 21:44

I thought your suggestion was good Funzo - I like Sami Yusuf and I like Outlandish too. I've got Kom Igen on my phone.

I think Morning Has Broken is a bit boring, it could send me to sleep. It reminds me too much of hymn practice at my church of England primary school - I still remember the words. But I love Yusuf Islam's voice and sound, so mellow and chilled out. My manager at work thinks he's great, she was telling me how she had posters of him up on her wall when she was my age and how he was a real "heart-throb". And she thinks he still is.

I remember reading a Laila Rouass interview in which she said Yusuf Islam was the one who taught her the Quran! :shock: 🙂 She grew up in Morroco and he was living there at the time, teaching at a mosque.