At the age of around 20, he fell in love with Saida Begum, a daughter of an Arghun aristocrat of Kotri Mughal, Mirza Mughal Beg, which landed Bhittai's family in trouble and caused them return to Hala Haweli. Local tradition holds that he was illiterate, however his use of Arabic and Persian in his poetry and the influence of the Persian poet Rumi evident on his thought show that he was well educated. Bhittai spent early years of his childhood in Hala Haweli, but the family then relocated to the nearby town of Kotri Mughal. They had emigrated to Sindh from Herat during the late 14th century. His ancestors traced their lineage back to the fourth caliph Ali and Fatima, the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. īhittai was born in 1689 or 1690 in Hala Haweli near modern-day Hala, to Shah Habib, a great-grandson of the Sufi poet Shah Abdul Karim Bulri. Together with Thattwi's works, these form the basis for the outline of the poet's life. The oral traditions were collected and documented in the late 19th century by Mirza Qalich Beg and Mir Abd al-Husayn Sangi. Other than these, however, little written records exist from the early period and most of the material was transmitted orally through generations. Tuhfat al-Kiram and Maqalat al-shu'ara, written by Mir Ali Sher Qani Tahttwi, a contemporary of Shah Abdul Latif, some fifteen years after the death of the poet, give some basic details of his life. 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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