Bhittai's poetry is popular among the people of Sindh and he is venerated throughout the province. Several Urdu and English translations of the work have been published since. His poems were compiled by his disciples in his Shah Jo Risalo. A mausoleum was built over his grave in subsequent years and became a popular pilgrimage site. Spending last years of his life at Bhit (Bhit Shah), he died in 1752. His piety and spirituality attracted large following as well as hostility of a few. Returning home after three years, he was married into an aristocrat family, but was widowed shortly afterwards and did not remarry. At the age of around 20, he left home and traveled throughout Sindh and neighboring lands, and met many a mystic and Jogis, whose influence is evident in his poetry. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai ( Sindhi: شاه عبدللطيف ڀٽائي 1689/1690 – 21 December 1752), commonly known by the honorifics Lakhino Latif, Latif Ghot, Bhittai, and Bhit Jo Shah, was a Sindhi Sufi mystic and poet, widely considered to be the greatest poet of the Sindhi language.īorn to a Sayyid family (descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima) of Hala Haweli, near modern-day Hala, Bhittai grew up in the nearby town of Kotri Mughal.
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