MULLA AEIN MAKH SHAH LATEEF SINDHI TOPI POETRY

In his memory, every year, on 14th Safar of the Hijri Calendar, an Urs is held at Bhit Shah, where he spent the last years of his life and where his elaborate and elegant mausoleum stands. He was born around 1689 CE (1102 A.H.) to Shah Habib in the village Sui-Qandar a few miles to the east of the present town of Bhit Shah (named after him), on SaA.H. They move about unmarked amongst the common folk.” …….Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai The lonely ones never talk to anyone about their being. “The next day I sat down, and listened to the Story of the ‘Vairagis.’ Their salmon-coloured clothes were covered with dust. A renowned Pakistani scholar, educationist, and a foremost writer of plays, dramas and stories, Mirza Kalich Beg has rendered a yeoman service to Sindhi literature by collecting details about the early life of Shah Bhitai, from the dialogues that he has constantly held with some of the old folks, still living at that time, who knew these facts from their fathers and grandfathers for they had seen Shah Latif in person and had even spoken to him. Most of the information that has come down to us has been collected from oral traditions. Shah Abdul latif’s deepness of poetry affiliated with the relationship between the Almighty and human is cause of his visits at different places of the regions surrounded to him and he always feel the circumstances carried out in his premises and he feels the people mind he had such a calm and sharp mind and such things made him the greatest poet of the world, if one could seriously understand his preaching. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is known by several honorific names – Lakhino Latif, Latif Ghot, Bhittai and Bhitt Jo Shah. For his works, he is regarded as a ‘Direct Emanations of Rūmī’s spirituality in the Indian world.’ The major themes of his poetry include Unity of Almighty, love for Prophet, Religious tolerance and humanistic values. His most famous written work is the Shah Jo Risalo, which is a master-piece of Sindhi Literature as well. He settled in the town of Bhit Shah in Matiari, Pakistan where his shrine is located. Shah Abdul Latif was son of Syed Habibullah and grandson of Syed Abdul Quddus Shah. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai was born in 1689 in Hala Haveli’s village Sui-Qandar located near Hyderabad, Pakistan. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1689–1752) (Sindhi: شاھ عبدالطيف ڀٽائيِ, Urdu: شاہ عبداللطیف بھٹائی) was a Sufi scholar, and is considered one of the greatest poets of the Sindhi language.

MULLA AEIN MAKH SHAH LATEEF SINDHI TOPI POETRY