One has only to read his Risalo to admit it. Some persons think that Shah had no schooling. Whether it was continued and concluded cannot be ascertained. It commenced at the madressah of Akhund Noor Muhammad Bhatti, situated about 6 miles away from Shah’s residence. The poet seems to have received good education. He is different from Makhdum Bilal of Dadu district, who had died earlier during the reign of the Arghuns. It is said that Shah’s father Sayed Habib Shah had shifted from Matyari, his ancestral place, to Bhainpur to have spiritual contacts with Makhdum Bilawal, a local pious man. One of them, Mir Hyder Shah, had visited Sind and married and remained at Hala for about 31/2 years. His ancestors originally belonged to Herat in Afghanistan. in Hala Haveli near Khatiyan village in Hala Taluka of Hyderabad District, Sind. Shah Abdul Latif, a Sayed and a Saint, a great scholar, an observer, a thinker, and a mystic, and an unobtrusive missionary, and more prominently an illustrious spiritualised poet of many dimensions, was born in 1102 A.H.
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