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Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan
ISSN (print): 2519-6332
ISSN (online): 2708-1915

Shah Abdul-Latif Bhitai and the Call to Gallows

  • Dr. Fateh Muhammad Malik/
  • June 19, 2018
Keywords
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Shah Jo Risalo, Translation, Saint, Sindhi Poetry, Latif's Poetry, Real Love, Feudal System, Gallows
Abstract

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is one of the most revered saints and most loved poets of Sindh. His Shah jo Risalo has been translated into many languages from Sindhi and a large number of scholars, both Pakistani and foreign, have tried to understand and explain the philosophy and the message in Shah Latif`s poetry. The author has explained in this paper that the worldly love had led Shah Latif to eternal and real love, that is the love of God, and his worldly love is but a metaphor for the eternal and true love of Allah, a relationship between the soul of an individual and the Soul of the Cosmos. But the author laments that tyranny of the feudal system still exists in Sindh and Shah Latif`s call to gallows remains silent.

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Former President, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Pakistan

  • mu.ahmad@iiu.edu.pk
  • 0092 321 5527676

Details:

Type: Article
Volume: 94
Issue: 1
Language: English
Id: 5e1a1b070a253
Pages 3 - 8
Discipline: Arts & Humanities
Published June 19, 2018

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