Abstract
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (1689-1752) as a versatile poet mainly focuses on the mystic world of eternity [Platonic world of ideas or eternal forms] in
his poetry. Shah Abdul latif’s Poetry is replete with the notions of Humanism
in terms of philanthropy, sympathy and love for mankind. Simultaneously,
Shah admires cosmos as the renowned creation of God; the creator. His poetry
demonstrates the innermost love of a man with beauty of nature, transcendence
and metaphysics of morals and sense of justice. If we critically analyze his
poetic leaning towards Sufism he seems to amalgamate the creator and creation as the unity of all Being [oneness]. The content of his poetry is unity of all
beings in one and same Being. This message deconstructs the metaphysical
basis of duality and emphasizes symmetrical unity of all beings into single
most Being of cosmos. This does not mean that Shah rebuffs diversity and plurality of beings. His emphasis is on the unity of all plurals into single, most
Being of all beings. Thus, unity of beings [oneness] or assimilation of beings in
Being is the core philosophical thirst of Shah’s poetry. Shah emerged from the
culture of Mysticism, so his poetry is encumbered with the philosophical notions of unity of all Being. The entire teaching of mysticism is based on cosmic
singularity around humanism, self-appraisal, self-knowing [Irfaan e zaat],
sacrifice and simplicity. According to Dr. Sorely, mysticism is an emotional
attitude of man towards God or the Divine. In this research paper we have
explored the poetry of Shah Sahab, demonstrating the emotional attitude of
man towards Divine as the primordial source of the absolute unity of all beings
into Being. Since, Shah ontologically unifies Human reality with divinity
through patience, reason and intellect, it is not correct to say that Shah’s poetic mysticism prioritizes emotions over reason and intellect. Rather, he unifies
emotions, reason and intellect to penetrate path into reality. Therefore, reality
is unity and unity is oneness of the Being of beings. Human beings can uncover
the eternal truth by ushering their hearts with the sense of justice, love, peace
and brotherhood. The metaphysics of morals beyond human emotions is the
guiding principle of the unification of man with Being. This is how we have
excavated the path of Sufism from the poetry of Shah. We have reconstructed
the poetic vision of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai on the philosophical and historical
background. It is a universal message; though his poetry is culturally specific
and historically determined.
Dr. Alam Shah, Shair Mahrani. (2013) شاہ جي شاعريءَ ۾ وحدت الوجود جو تصور, Kalachi, Volume 16, Issue 2.
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