Shah Abdul Latif Bhattai Rehmtullah aliah

The great saint Shah Abdul Latif, who is lovingly called Lal Latif by his devotees, was born 1192 Hijra in a small village called "Hala Haveli" . The good Mughul Emperor Aurangzeb then ruled the country. Shah Abdul Latif 's ancestors had migrated to Sindh during the days of Tamerlane.They had come Hirat. Sindh was then a center of Muslims culture and Shah Abdul Latif's ancestors liked it so much that they decided to make it their home. But no one would have remembered their names or learnt about them, if many centuries later one of their descendants, Sayed Habib Shah, had not been blessed with a son who grew up to be saint Lal Latif.
Shah Latif had a very sensitive mind. His heart was soon filled with love of God. The beauty of nature aroused his feeling strongly. He was also keen on acquiring knowledge and he grew up to be a scholar of Arabic and Persian. When he was twenty, he married to his wife and lived at home for many years. His heart, however, turned more and more towards religion and devotion, and he felt restless in living a normal demestic life.
When his father died, Shah Latif left his home and went to live on a mound at some distance from his village. A mound of sand is called "Bhit" in sindhi. Due to the fact that he lived on this mound for the rest of his life, Shah Latif came to be known as "the saint of Bhit". To this day, he is famous all over the country as Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai or Shah Latif of the mound.
 As days passed, Latif's love of God grew,more and more until he found pleasure only in devotion and spent most of his time in player and deep thinking. His spiritual power grew stronger with prayer and devotion , so much so that people began to be attracked towards him. Any one, who came to him was strongly impressed by his gentle ways and his followers increased day by day Close to the mound on which Lal Latif came to live is a natural lake. His poetic nature loved the calm atmostphere. He would spend much of his time sitting on the bank of this lake. As he sar there, he prayed to Shah Latif was not only a saint and a poet, but also a musician. He found great comfort in music. his skill in this ar enabled him to make many improvements and changes in the difficult music of his time. As in everything else, he loved simplicity in music and musical instruments. He did not agree with the idea that music should be difficult. So he made it simple. He also incented a simple musical instrument and called it "Tambooro. It was like and instrument used by the Arabs  but the number of string was different. To this day the "Tambooro" is popular all over sindh. Old and young play it and sing the songs of Latif to its simple but moving tunes.

 Lal Latif died in 1165 Hijra on the mound where he had lived and was buried there. A famous king of sind, Ghulam Shah Kalhoro, was so devoted to him
that he built a shrine over his grave. Lal Latif's "urs" is held at his shrine every year on 14th Safer, the second month of the Muslims calendar. Many thousands of people gather, listen to the Saint's songs sung to the 'Tambooro' and offer their prayers. Many learned men read papers that tell about Latif's life and his poetry.  Latif's message is the message of love. He believed in the brotherhood and equality of men and in pleaseing God by good deeds This according to him is the  goal of life.