इलाही अता फिर वो ईमान कर दे

A supplicatory song from the 1941 social drama Masoom, set to music by Munshi Mubarak Hussain. The title is an address to the divine ('Ilahi'), asking for faith to be granted anew. The original recording is now scarce, and the singer for this number is not documented in the standard catalogues.

The title 'Ilahi Ata Phir Wo Eman Kar De' — 'O God, bestow upon me again that faith' — belongs to the munajat, the Urdu tradition of private supplicatory prayer addressed directly to God. 'Ilahi' is the Arabic/Urdu vocative for 'O my God' (from Allah), the intimate divine address of classical munajat poetry. 'Ata karna' (to bestow, to grant) is the standard verb for divine gift in Urdu religious verse. The key word 'iman' (faith, belief) is a foundational concept in Islamic theology (aqida), but in Sufi and devotional poetry it extends to the inner experience of conviction and surrender. The desire to have lost faith restored — to be given back one's capacity for belief — is a penitential motif that runs through the munajat tradition from medieval Sufi poets through to the Islamic devotional verse that entered Hindi cinema via Punjabi and Lucknawi literary channels.

Masoom (1941) was advertised as the 'First Muslim Social' (pehli Musalman samajik film) on the Indian screen — a designation that positioned it explicitly within a genre of socially conscious films centered on Muslim community life. Munshi Mubarak Hussain, one of the lesser-documented composers of the early talkie era, provided the film's score. Devotional and prayer songs were customary in Muslim social films of this period, providing moments of religious gravity within the narrative. 'Ilahi Ata Phir Wo Eman Kar De' — a supplication asking for faith to be restored — would have functioned as such a devotional anchor. The original recordings are now scarce, and neither the singer nor the specific lyricist for this song survives in the standard catalogues; the film's song attributions remain among the most incompletely documented of the 1941 season.