Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif bhitai

Shah Abdul Latif, a great scholar, saint and spiritual poet, was born in Hala Haveli near the village Khatiyan Hyderabad District, Sindh in 1689. His ancestral roots are in Afghanistan. It is said that Shah's father, Syed Habib Shah, had migrated from Matyaru, his ancestral home in Sindh in Afghanistan Bhainpur to spiritually connecting with Bilawal, a local holy man. Abdul Latif got his early education in a Madrasa run by Akhund Noor M. Bhatti. He was versed in the knowledge of the Koran and the traditions. He always carried copies of the Qur'an, Masnavi Maulana Room, and his great grandfather Risalo of Shah Abdul Karim of Burli. The poet excelled in the Sindhi language. He was also proficient in Persian, Sanskrit, Saraiki, Urdu and Baluchi language. Shah was a missionary and believed in the practical learning. It is through his travels he acquired the background for most of his poems. He denounced extravagance, injustice and exploitation in all forms and at all levels, and praised the simplicity and hospitality. His spiritual and mystical poetry carries a message of love and universality of the human race. In 1713, the Sufi poet married Bibi Begum Saidha. It was a love marriage. His wife died at a young age, before she could no children. Shah never remarried. In 1742, Shah Abdul Latif decided to settle in Bhit, which means "The Sandy Mound." Having a great passion for music, one day he ordered the musicians to play music. They played continuously for three days. Then they stopped from sheer exhaustion, they found the dead poet. He died in 1752, and was buried in Bhit. A mausoleum was later built. Before his death, fearing that people would ignore his poetry, he destroyed all his writings by throwing them in the Lake Kiran. But at the request of one of his disciples, the Sufi poet asked his servant, Naimat Mai, who had learned most of his verses, to rewrite them. The message was duly recorded and compiled. A copy of the compilation known as "Ganj" was maintained at the mausoleum. The original disappeared sometime in 1854. It was in 1866, 114 years after the death of the poet, Ernest Trumpp, a German scholar who knew Sindhi like many other languages, "Risalo" a complete collection of poems, Shah Abdul Latif's, compiled together with two other Sindhi scholars.

Hazrat ghous-ul-azam

Great defender and leader of the saints are born of religious parents Hasani tribes, in the year 478 Hijri at Gilan in Persia. He is Syed from both sides, from the father as well as the mother. His father Syed Abu Saleh, a prominent and God-fearing man. When he was engrossed in meditation by the bank of a river he saw an apple floating down the rivers. He picked it and ate it. It struck him that he ate the apple without paying for it so he sets out in search of the owner, the bank of the river and finally reached the owner of the apple orchard, Abdullah Somai whom he requested to tell him the price of the apple, Abdullah replied Somai is an expensive affair. Syed Abu Saleh replied that he was not much by way of worldly material but he can deliver for her compensation. Somai Abdullah then asked him to Work for a year in the garden. In course of time the duration of extended many times. In the end Somai Abdullah admitted that he served him in excess of the price and want to reward him. Abu Saleh hesitated to accept it but when Abdullah Somai persisted, he relented. He said he had a daughter, blind of eyes, handicapped hands and feet and wanted to give her in marriage to him. In this way Somai Abdullah was married to his daughter, Syeda Fatimah. To his astonishment at Abu Saleh was found in her wondrously beautiful and wholesome. He complained to his father-in-law he found his exact opposite of what he described her. Somai Abdullah insisted the sincerity of his statement. He is blind because he had seen a man who can marry her. She was mute because she never uttered a word repugnant in the Shairah. She was deaf because he did not hear anything inconsistent with the Shairah. He has a disability of hands and feet because he had moved in the direction of evil. The father died after a great defender and the little orphan was reared by his mother and under the kindly care of his grand father, Abdullah Somai.He busied himself for forty years in the service of Faith from 561 to 521 Hijri Nowadays hundreds embarrassed Islam because of him and organized several teams to go abroad for the purpose. He arrived in India in 1428 AD. And stayed at Multan. His Qadriya to still exist in India. He died 561 Hijri at the age of 91 years.