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.
