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Shah
Abdul Latif Bhittai
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SHAH ABDUL LATIF BHITTAI

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• Shah Abdul Latif is the greatest poet, born in Bhit shah, near Hala in 1689.

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• Collection of his poetry is known as "SHAH JO RISALO".

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• He died at age of 63 years in 1752.

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• Shah Habib is the name of his father.

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• Shah Abdul Karim Bulrri Waro was the grandfather of Latif.
• Special Khalifa of Shah Abdul Latif was Timar Faqeer and his real name was Haji Ali.

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• Horse name of SHAH ABDUL LATIF WAS "CHANGAL".

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• Madan Baghat was Hindu poet of Sindhi language and one of the close friends of SHAH

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ABDUL LATIF.

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• When SHAH ABDULLATIF was young man, Mian Noor Muhammad Kalhoro was the ruler

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of Sindh.

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• When SHAH ABDUL LATIF was old, MIAN GHULAM SHAH KALHORO was the ruler of

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SINDH.
• SUFI SHAH INAYAT SHAHEED'S (SUFI FRIEND OF LATIF) URS is celebrated on "14
SAFAR".

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• URS Of SHAH ABDUL LATIF is celebrated on 14TH OF URS (RAB-UL-AWAL) every

year.
• On 22 September 2021, 278th URS OF SHAH ABDUL LATIF was celebrated.

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• TIMAR FAQEER took care of "TANBORO "of SHAH ABDUL LATIF after his death.

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• During the attack of AHMED SHAH ABDALI ON SINDH, age of LATIF was 56 years.

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• During the attack of AHMED SHAH DURANI on Sindh, age of LATIF was 58 years.

RISALO.
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• ATTAL & CHANCHAL were two singers who helped LATIF in collection of SHAH JO

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• SHAH JO RISALO is kept in museum of London which was collected by DR.TRUMP.

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• The first collection of SHAH JO RISALO is known as "GANJ".

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• It was in custody of TIMAR FAQEER, afterwards it was in the custody of his family.

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• GANJ" means "TREASUR" (KHAZANA).

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• GANJ RISALO was collected by ABDUL AZEEM famously known as "WADDA SHAH".

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• GANJ was first time published in 1792, after 40 years death of SHAH ABDUL LATIF.

• 1ST SUR of GANJI is "SUR SASSUI".

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• There are thirty SUR (CHAPTERS) in SHAHJO RISALO.

• SHAH ABDUL LATIF was the poet of KALHORA PERIOD.

• "SHAH ADUL LATIF of BHITT" book was written by DR.H.T.SORLEY.

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• Full name of DR.H.T.SORLEY is HERBERT TOWER SORLEY.

• The first PHD on SHAH ABDUL LATIF was that of DR.H,T SORLEY.
• SHAH ABDUL LATIF of BHIT was translated into Sindhi by ATTA MUHAMMAD
BHABHRO as "BHIT JO SHAH".

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• SHAH ABDUL LATIF went to meet KHAWAJA MUHAMMAD ZAMAN LANWARI

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WARO in his last years of his life.

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• AKHUND NOOR MUHAMMAD BHATTI was the 1" Teacher of LATIF.

in UMERKOT.
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• "SHAH JI SOORMI-MOOMAL AND MOOMAL JI MAARRI" associated with her story is

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• In "SUR GHATO", LATIF wrote poetry on "KALACHI JO KUN".

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• It is located near KIYAMANI IN Karachi.

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• Mian Wali Muhammad son of Akhund Noor Muhammad Bhatti gave the funeral bath

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(Ghusal) to Latif after his death.
• ATTAL & CHANCHAL" gave the names of chapters (sur) of Shah Jo Risalo.

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• First time Shah Jo risalo was published in 1866 in Leipzig Germany.
• It was published by EARNEST TRUMP.

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• One of the Soormo of latif was Mehar. His grave is in Shahdadpur.
• One of the Soormo of LATIF was Jam Tamachi. His title was Sultan Rukun-u-din.
• SHAH LATIF always accompanied three books with himself-SHAH KARIM
JO RISALO, QURAN & Masnavi Rumi.
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• Suhni, a Soormi of SHAH ABDUL LATIF, is engraved in Shahdadpur.

• A famous hypothetical story that SHAH ABDUL LATIF threw away his "SHAH JO
RISALO "in the lake. The name of that lake is "Karrar Dhandh".

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• Only female who collected SHAH JO RISALO was "Mai Muli Naima."

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• Eedan Razo was man belonged to SUKKAR that built the tomb of LATIF.

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• Urdu translation of SHAH JO RISALO is done by Shaikh Ayaz & Agha Saleem.

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• Siraeki translation of SHAH JO RISALO is done by Ustad Laghari.
• English translation of SHAH JO RISALO is done by Elsa Kazi, a German lady married to
Allama I.I.Kazi, & Amena Khamesani.
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• SAHAL SARMAST was 13 years when LATIF died.

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• There are only 22 sur (chapters) in SHAH JO RISALO collected by Earnest Trump.

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• There are 5 Sur (chapters) in SHAH JO RISALO about SUHNI.

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• Ancestors of LATIF came to Sindh in the reign of Amir Taimor.

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• SHAH ABDUL LATIF wrote only Wai & Bait.

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• Village of "Marai”, a soormi of LATIF, is near Nangar Parkar, Thar.

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• Paigham-e-LATIF is the book of 'G.M.SYED'.
• SHAH LATIF Ji Shairy is the book written by Tanveer Abbasi.
• Abdul Majeed Bhurgari brought SHAH JO RISALO in E-book version for the first time on

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• Ancestors of Latif belonged to Hirat.

• Allama I.I.Qazi compared SHAH ABDUL LATIF with Shakespeare.
• Niaz Humayooni translated 7 sur (chapters) of SHAH JO RISALO in Persian.

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• Gul Muhammad Khatri produced art works in the form of portraits, landscape and

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calligraphic illustrations of poetry of SHAH ABDUL LATIF BHITTAI. Therefore, he is also

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known as Musawar-e-Latif.

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• SHAH JO RISALO is translated into Arabic by DR. Fazal Raheem Soomro.
• Kirtaal Singh translated SHAH JO RISALO into Punjabi.

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• SHAH LATIF chair was established in Karachi University in 1986.

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• Nadir shah attacked Sindh during the period of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

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