Nor is it correct to call him the last of the traditional or medieval poets in Sindhi, as some have tried to make out Shah is no Milton, the last of the Elizabethans. His poetry is not that of a pioneer, it is the poetry of fulfillment it is not the poetry of experimentation or innovation, it is the poetry of gracious benediction. Shah was the finest flower in a garden of poetry. It has become clear now that, far from being the only poet of Sind, or the only singer of his time, Shah was only one albeit the greatest of a multitude of poets who formed a 'nest of singing birds' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The first foreigners who explored the civilization and culture of Sind thought that Shah was the only Poet and Philosopher Sind had produced, and the universal vogue of Shah-Jo-Risalo, or Shah's Poetical Works, in the land of the Sindhu, inclined them to believe that the Risalo was the only literary work in the Sindhi language. He is not only the greatest of Sindhi writers, but he has been equated with the literature of his land, as if he were co-terminous with Sindhi literature. SHAH ABDUL LATIF of Bhitt, called simply' Shah' or 'Monarch’ is a unique figure in Sindhi literature.
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