 With the permission of his family, the Committee settled on the title "Ostad Elahi" to retain the respect intended by his sister, and to convey that he was a master musician.As a result, most books and articles written about him since 1995 have used the title "Ostad Elahi", and it is both the name and the honorific by which he is most widely known today.Elahi spent the greater part of his life and work in the pursuit of self-knowledge and mysticism.