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 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 an 18th-century Sindhi Sufi mystic, scholar 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, Sindh, Pakistan, Bhittai grew up in the nearby town of Kotri Mughal.
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