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Shah Abdul La f Bhitai is an acknowledged poet of Sindh but his
name and fame is spread all over the world. His Risalo is acknowledged
across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. Shah Jo Risalo is a poe c compendium of famous Sindhi Sufi poet Shah
Abdul La f. Long before Ernest Trump, Captain George Stack, in about 1850,
had started compiling of Shah jo Risalo but due to his death he could not finish the work. However, in 1852, famous orientalist Richard Burton in his book
‘History of Sindh’ gave basic account of Shah La f and his poetry. In 1852,
Marry Frere, a writer and the daughter of Sir Bartle Frere (the then Commissioner of Sindh) had also taken interest in the poetry of Shah La f. But all
such efforts made by these persons were incomplete and without substance.
Mr. Dayaram Gidumal has rightly observed in his book Sigma (1882) that it is
a shame, an u8er shame, that a poet like Abdul La f is so much neglected by
Europeans. Sir Bartle Frere, while serving as the Commissioner of Sindh gave
a liberal grant to Dr. Trumpp for working on the Risalo, its edi ng, publishing
etc and the said edi on is s ll extent (p. 4). We the people of Sindh owe a
tribute to Dr. Trumpp who worked relessly to compile poetry of Shah La f.
He prepared Sindhi type writer with Sindhi words to type poetry of Shah in
proper manner. Despite his personal efforts and assistance from Educa onal
Department of Sindh, he could not publish the complete Risalo of Shah La f
as four Surs (Melodies) could not be included in the book. He published the
book from Leipzeg, Germany and it is considered as the first ever published
Risalo of La f. It would not be out of place to say that Risalo compiled by Dr.
Trumpp is the Magna Carta of he history of Sindhi literature. All remaining
collec ons of Shah are directly or indirectly inspired from the works of Dr.
Trumpp.
Mukhtiar Ahmed Mallah. (2019) Research on Shah Latif before Dr. Trumpp by Europeans, Kalachi, Volume 22, Issue 1.
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