Abdul Rauf Rufi

Pakistani performer of Islamic music

Abdul Rauf Rufi

عبد الرؤف روفی

Born|

Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Occupation(s)| Naat Khawan (Naat reciter), poet
Awards| Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 2005[1]

Abdul Rauf Rufi (Urdu: عبد الرؤف روفی) is a Naat Khawan from Pakistan.

## Career

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He likes to use a lot of musical instruments including the Arab percussion drums and traditional Pakistani Tabla, Dholak and Dafli ( Daf ) when reciting Naats.[2]

## Released Albums

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Some of his albums are:

Vaseela e Rehmat (2004)
Darbar e Rehmat (2004)
Al Madina Chal Madina (2009)
Patti Patti Phool Phool (2009)
Ausaaf-e-Hameeda (2010)
Maan Baap (2010)
Tan Sadaqe Mera Maan Sadaqe (2011)
Ameen (2011)
Hum Tou Gulab Hogaye (2012)

## Super-hit Naats

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* Meetha Meetha Hai Meray Muhammad Ka Naam[3]
* Who Suay Lalazaar Phirte Hain
* Agar Koi Apna Bhala Chahta Hai
* Rukh-e-Mustafa Ka Jamal Allah Allah
* Al Madina Chal Madina, Aaj Nahin Tau Kal Madina[3]
* Rab Ka Pyara Aaya Hai
* Mein Madinay Ho Anwaan[3]

## Awards

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* Pride of Performance Award in 2005 by the Government of Pakistan.[3][1]

## References

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1. ^ a b Abdul Rauf Rufi's Pride of Performance Award info listed on Dawn (newspaper) Published 14 Aug 2004, Retrieved 3 December 2018
2. ^ [1] Profile of Abdul Rauf Rufi on soneyweb.com website, Retrieved 3 December 2018
3. ^ a b c d Soney, Web (31 October 2013). "Profile of Abdul Rauf Rufi". Soney Web. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2022.

## External links

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* Listen to 7 Naats by Abdul Rauf Rufi on wordpress.com website

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Recipients of the Pride of Performance for Arts

1950s|

* Abdur Rehman Chughtai (1958)
* Zainul Abedin (1958)
* Hafeez Jalandhari (1958)
* Professor Abdus Salam (1958)

1960s|

* Roshan Ara Begum (1960)
* Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer) (1960)
* Tassaduq Hussain (1960)
* Sadequain (1962)
* Mehdi Ali Mirza (1962)
* Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (1962)
* Ahmed Mohiuddin (1962)
* Allah Bakhsh (1963)
* Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1963)
* Noor Jehan (1965)
* A.S.M. Qamarul Hasan (1965)
* Zubaida Agha (1965)
* Ferdausi Begum (1965)
* Sharif Khan Poonchwaley (1965)
* Imtiaz Ali Taj (1965)
* Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1966)
* Shakir Ali (1966)
* Khwaja Moinuddin (1966)
* Ayat Ali Khan (1966)
* Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1967)
* Munshi Raziuddin (1967)
* Rafi Peer (1967)
* Ali Imam (1968)
* Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (1968)
* Amanat Ali Khan (1969)
* Bade Fateh Ali Khan (1969)
* Leila Arjumand Banu (1969)
* Umeed Ali Khan (1969)
* Mohammad Kibria (1969)
* Anna Molka Ahmed (1969)

1970s|

* Ismail Gulgee (1970)
* Farida Khanum (1970)
* Naheed Niazi (1970)
* Muslehuddin (1970)
* Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan (1971)
* S. M. Ikram (1971)
* Iqbal Bano (1974)
* Salamat Ali Khan (1977)
* Munir Sarhadi (1978)
* Ahmed Parvez (1978)
* Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan (1978)
* Sabri Brothers (1978)
* Ibn-e-Insha (1978)
* Faiz Mohammad Baloch (1979)
* Khamiso Khan (1979)
* Kishwar Sultan (1979)
* Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz) (1979)
* Ghulam Ali (1979)
* Alam Lohar (1979)
* Mureed Buledi (1979)
* Misri Khan Jamali (1979)
* Pathanay Khan (1979)
* Mohammad Azam Chishti (1979)
* Ashfaq Ahmed (1979)
* Nabi Bakhsh Baloch (1979)

1980s|

* Mohammad Qavi Khan (1980)
* Ustad Khyal Muhammad (1980)
* Allan Fakir (1980)
* Sohail Rana (1980)
* Khalid Iqbal (1980)
* Aazar Zubi (1980)
* Malika Pukhraj (1980)
* Muhammad Juman (1980)
* Qari Shakir Qasmi (1981)
* Nasir Jahan (1981)
* Mansoor Tabish (1981)
* Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni (1981)
* Nanhe Ali Khan (music performer))(1981)
* Roohi Bano (1981)
* Alexander Robert (1981)
* Mai Bhagi (1981)
* Mirza Adeeb (1981)
* Uzma Gillani (1982)
* Qari Ubaidur Rehman (1982)
* Talat Hussain (1982)
* Tufail Niazi (1982)
* Reshma (1982)
* Arsh Muneer (1983)
* Ustad Nazar Hussain (1983)
* Atta Shad (1983)
* Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi (1984)
* Begum Khurshid Mirza (1984)
* Abida Parveen (1984)
* Muhammad Ali (1984)
* Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini, Nafees Raqam (1985)
* Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan (1985)
* Bundu Khan (1985)
* Mehdi Hasan (1985)
* Shaukat Hussain (1985)
* Qari Ghulam Rasool (1985)
* Siddiq Ismail (1985)
* Abid Ali (1985)
* Syed Mehmood Ali (1985)
* Sabiha Khanum (1986)
* Shahzad Khalil (1986)
* Suraiya Multanikar (1986)
* Firdous Jamal (1986)
* Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan(1986)
* Azhar Lodhi (1986)
* Riaz Batalvi (1986)
* Intizar Hussain (1986)
* Amjad Islam Amjad (1987)
* Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi (1987)
* Haseena Moin (1987)
* Aadil Salahuddin (1987)
* Sain Akhtar Hussain (1987)
* Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi (1987)
* Shaista Zaid (1988)
* Ghulam Hassan Shaggan (1988)
* Mustafa Qureshi (1988)
* Muzaffar Warsi (1988)
* Qazi Wajid (1988)
* Ustad Kabir Khan (1989)
* Ghulam Ahmed Chishti (1989)
* Musarrat Nazir (1989)
* Shafi Mohammad Shah (1989)
* Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (1989)
* Jameel Bismil (1989)
* Bushra Ansari (1989)
* Ameer Khan (1989)
* Amjad Hussain (1989)
* Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1989)
* Aziz Mian (1989)
* Talish (1989)
* Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak (1989)
* Jamil Naqsh (1989)
* Enver Sajjad (1989)

1990s|

* Salim Nasir (1990)
* Daud Kamal (1990)
* Khalid Hameed Baig (1990)
* Shaukat Ali (1990)
* Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan Mando (1990)
* Ustad Hamid Ali Khan (1990)
* Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Gwalior gharana) (1990)
* Ahmed Saeed Nagi (1990)
* Qari Mohammad Fida (1990)
* Parveen Shakir (1990)
* Iftikhar Arif (1990)
* Ibrahim Jalees (1990)
* Jamiluddin Aali (1991)
* Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam (1991)
* Khayyam Sarhadi (1991)
* Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi (1991)
* Ata ul Haq Qasmi (1991)
* Nayyar Ali Dada (1992)
* Shakeel (Yousuf Kamal) (1992)
* Noor Mohammad Lashari (1992)
* Tariq Aziz (1992)
* Mustansar Hussain Tarar (1992)
* Pervez Malik (1992)
* Jawed Iqbal (1992)
* Mian Ijazul Hasan (1992)
* Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (1992)
* Munir Niazi (1992)
* Naseem Hijazi (1992)
* Mian Sheheryar (1992)
* Mushtaq Gazdar (1992)
* Waheed Qureshi (1993)
* Ismail Shahid (1993)
* Saeed Akhtar (1993)
* Ali Ejaz (1993)
* S.H. Hashmi (1993)
* Syed Manzoorul Kaunain (1993)
* Qari Syed Buzurg Shah Al-Azhari (1993)
* Agha Nasir (1993)
* Farooq Qaiser (1993)
* Bashir Mirza (1994)
* Ahmad Bashir (1994)
* Shahid Jalal (1994)
* Qari Mohammad Younus (1994)
* Qari Syed Ali Abid Naqvi (1994)
* Mehr Abdul Haq (1994)
* Nisar Bazmi (1994)
* Hamid Ali Bela (1994)
* Zareena Baloch (1994)
* Anwar Maqsood (1994)
* Shujaat Hashmi (1994)
* Qateel Shifai (1994)
* Zamir Niazi (1994))
* Tufail Hoshiarpuri (1994)
* Nahid Siddiqui (1994))
* Laeeq Ahmed (1994)
* Abdus Salam (newscaster) (1994)
* Allah Rakha (sarangi) (1995)
* Ustad Talib Hussain Khan (1995)
* Colin David (1995)
* Shoaib Hashmi (1995)
* Rauf Khalid (1995)
* Laila Shahzada (1995)
* Hajra Masroor (1995)
* Khursheed Ahmad (1996)
* Mashooq Sultan (1996)
* Safeerullah Lehri (1996)
* Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (1996)
* Qari Noor Mohammad (1996)
* Rubina Khalid (1996)
* Fatima Surayya Bajia (1996)
* Sehba Akhtar (1996)
* Mohammad Ali Shah (surgeon) (1996)
* Ahmad Rahi (1997)
* Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla (1997)
* Nadeem Baig (1997)
* Abdul Hameed (1997)
* Masroor Anwar (1997)
* Ahmad Ali Khan (1997)
* Akhtar Chanal Zahri (1998)
* Mumtaz Mirza (1998)
* Suhrab Faqir (1999)
* Dilawar Figar (1999)
* Salima Hashmi (1999)
* Anwar Masood (1999)
* Anita Ghulam Ali (1999)
* Zafar Iqbal (poet) (1999)
* Khalid Abbas Dar (1999)
* Khatir Ghaznavi (1999)
* Mujahid Kamran (1999)
* Raza Mir (1999)

2000s|

* Amjad Parvez (2000)
* Sharif Kunjahi (2000)
* Kajjan Begum (2001)
* Kamaluddin Ahmed (2001)
* Athar Shah Khan Jaidi (2001)
* Jameel Fakhri (2002)
* Nazia Hassan (2002)
* Deena M. Mistri (2002)
* Askari Mian Irani (2002)
* Himayat Ali Shair (2002)
* Shoaib Mansoor (2002)
* Jilani Kamran (2002)
* Iftikhar Ahmad (2003)
* Ada Jafri (2003)
* Syed Afzal Hussain (2003)
* Syed Munawwar Saeed (2003)
* Abdul Aziz Baloch (2003)
* Ghulam Mustafa (2003)
* Majeed Khan (sarangi player) (2003)
* Muneeza Hashmi (2003)
* Muhammad Ali Siddiqui (2003)
* Imdad Hussaini (2003)
* Muhammad Usman Diplai (2004)
* Yousuf Khan (actor) (2004)
* Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (2004)
* Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid (2004)
* Navid Shahzad (2004)
* Salahuddin Toofani (2004)
* S. M. Naqi (2004)
* Haji Atta Muhammad (2004)
* Moin Niazi (2004)
* Shahida Parveen (2004)
* Tina Sani (2004)
* Niaz Ahmed (2004)
* Samiur Rahman (2004)
* Tariq Rahman (2004)
* Rais Khan (2005)
* Arif Lohar (2005)
* Rangeela (2005)
* Muhammad Mansha Yaad (2005)
* Shabnam Shakeel (2005)
* Abdul Rauf Rufi (2005)
* Khawaja Najmul Hassan (2005)
* Amir Adnan (2006)
* Asghar Nadeem Syed (2006)
* Arshad Mehmood (2006)
* Arfa Karim (2006)
* Fareed Ayaz (2006)
* Nayyar Kamal (2006)
* Tassawar Khanum (2006)
* Ustad Badar uz Zaman (2006)
* Ustad Qamar uz Zaman (2006)
* Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (2006)
* Zehra Nigah (2006)
* Khalida Hussain (2006)
* Ghazi Sial (2006)
* Nayyara Noor (2006)
* Masood Akhtar (2006)
* Aftab Iqbal Shamim (2006)
* Naheed Akhtar (2007)
* Shaan (2007)
* Asad Amanat Ali Khan (2007)
* Hamid Ali Khan (2007)
* Faakhir Mehmood (2007)
* Munnu Bhai (2007)
* Munni Begum (2008)
* Akhtar Munir (2008)
* Gopal Das (2008)
* Haji Mehr Ali (2008)
* Haji Sher Ali (2008)
* Nahid Raza (2008)
* Gul Bahar Bano (2008)
* Mujahid Hussain (2008)
* Rasheed Malik (2008)
* Sultana Siddiqui (2008)
* Abdul Karim Balouch (2008)
* Abdul Qadir Junejo (2008)
* M. Hanif Raza (2008)
* Nasreen Askari (2008)
* Shafqat Amanat Ali (2008)
* Mansoor Rahi (2008)
* Tari Khan (2008)
* Noorul Huda Shah (2008)
* Rasheed Naz (2009)
* Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan (2009)
* Muhammad Younus Khan (2009)
* Emanuel Philip (2009)
* Rehana Siddiqui (2009)
* Shabbir Hussain (2009)
* Manzoor Hussain (2009)
* Parveen Nazzar (2009)
* Javaid Tufail Niazi (2009)
* Babar Ali Niazi (2009)
* Hajra Mansoor (2009)
* Behroze Sabzwari (2009)
* Obaidullah Baig (2009)
* Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg (2009)
* Naseem Sultan (2009)
* Ghous Bux Brohi (2009)
* Sahib Dino Mallah (2009)
* Satish Chandra Anand (2009)
* Rubeena Malik (2009)
* Badar Munir (2009)
* Muhammad Gul (2009)
* Mehnaz Hyat (2009)
* Abdul Qadir (2009)
* Ghayyur Akhtar (2009)
* Aslam Farrukhi (2009)
* Ali Moeen Nawazish (2009)

2010s|

* Afzal Tauseef (2010)
* Musarrat Misbah (2010)
* Rabia Zuberi (2010)
* Zulfiqar Ali (2010)
* Mahmood Shaam (2010)
* Hameed Akhtar (2010)
* Fahmida Riaz (2010)
* Shahid Nadeem (2010)
* Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (2010)
* Masood Mufti (2010)
* Masood Ashar (2010)
* Habib-ur-Rehman (2011)
* Khalida Inayat Noor (2011)
* Khan Tehsil (2011)
* Abdul Rahim Nagori (2011)
* S. Amjad Bukhari (2011)
* S. B. John (2011)
* S.H. Qasim Jalali (2011)
* Samina Ahmad (2011)
* Sohail Ahmed (2011)
* Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu (2011)
* Khalid Ahmad (2011)
* Ustad Muhammad Alam (2011)
* Ustad Sharafat Ali Khan (2011)
* Wazir Afzal (2011)
* Zafar Kazmi (2011)
* Moin Akhter (2011)
* Sahira Kazmi (2012)
* Mohsin Gillani (2012)
* Nauman Ijaz (2012)
* Saba Hameed (2012)
* Jawed Sheikh (2012)
* Meera (2012)
* Rahat Naveed Masud (2012)
* Lutfullah Khan (2012)
* Kazim Pasha (2012)
* Tahira Syed (2013)
* Muhammad Ajmal Khan (2013)
* Alamgir (2013)
* Shahida Mini (2013)
* Naghma (2013)
* Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema (2013)
* Cecil Chaudhry (2013)
* Shahid Abdullah (2014)
* Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan (2014)
* Aurangzeb Leghari (2014)
* Nazir Leghari (2014)
* Ayub Khawar (2014)
* Mir Mohammad Ali (TV comedian) (2015)
* Ayesha Haroon (2015)
* Saleem Kausar (2015)
* Saba Qamar (2016)
* Waseem Abbas (2016)
* Wajahat Masood (journalist) (2016)
* Gulab Chandio (2016)
* Nathoo Khan (2016)
* Khalid Butt (2016)
* Sarmad Khoosat (2017)
* Humaira Channa (2017)
* Ghazi Salahuddin (2017)
* Rashid Mehmood (2017)
* Shakir Shuja Abadi (2017)
* Zulfiqar Bhutta (2017)
* Aslam Pervaiz (2018)
* Ghulam Haider (musician) (2018)
* Amin Hafeez (2018)
* A. Nayyar (singer) (2018)
* Bilqees Khanum (2018)
* Rauf Parekh (journalist) (2018)
* Amanullah (comedian) (2018)
* Nighat Chaudhry (classical dancer) (2018)
* Nighat Butt (2018)
* Zareen Panna (2018)
* Ishrat Fatima (newsreader) (2019)
* Reema Khan (2019)
* Arshad Sharif (journalist) (2019)
* Nasir Adeeb (2019)
* Shabbir Jan (2019)
* Iftikhar Thakur (2019)

2020s|

* Deeba (2020)
* Ghulam Mohiuddin (2020)
* Sahir Ali Bagga (2020)
* Waris Baig (2020)
* Ghulam Abbas 2020
* Saieen Zahoor (2020)
* Fareed Ayaz (for qawwali group member Abu Muhammad) (2020)
* Sarmad Sehbai (2021)
* Resham (2021)
* Khalid Masud Gondal (2021)
* Hafeez Tahir (2023)
* Sangeeta (2023)
* Sher Miandad Khan (2023)
* Ustad Tafu (2023)
* Anjuman (2023)
* Naghma (2023)

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