We are glad to share this beautiful work with the lovers of Latif. No doubt it is a Creditable contribution towards the poetry and music of Shah Latif the great. Zulfiqar Ali Qureshi has discussed different modes of the Vaaees of Shah Latif. This Book is also the part of the same series. Through its new experimentation media specially electronic and social media is being popularized day by day and the new ideas are being discovered and discussed. In this regard different scholars, Music composers, vocalists and Producers have contributed. That’s why his poetry seems new in all ages and stages. In total his poetry witnesses the universal temporal at large scale. In mode of composition the Vaaee of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai seem as the main and the middle of his poetry while Bait seems as the preface to the Vaaees. While in art of composition it may differ.

Vaaee of Shah Latif is being sung in 11 different styles at his shrines.

These days Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif is being spread in various parts of Sindh as well as world through mass media. Vaaee is supposed to be an ancient form of music and poetry in Sindhi. As scholar claims that ‘this research work focuses on Vaaee and its different singing styles with respect to electronic media. This Book “VAAEE OF SHAH ABDUL LATIF BHITAI”: Origin, Evolution and Role of Mass Media’ written by well-known musician and scholar ZULFIQAR ALI QURESHI is actually his PhD dissertation which he presented in University of Sindh for Award of PhD degree. In the poetry of ShahLatif, the both Bait as well as the Vaaee seem on its peak. Shah Latif adopted and sometimes invented the new Metres of Bait and Vaaee. Shah Latif owned the both forms of Poetry such as, Bait and Vaaees as well as. While the Kafi by art can be written in the Ghazal or in the Geet mode or form. In Vaaee there is repetition after every verse. It is wrong claim as the both are different in their forms. In upper Sindh the same form of poetry is called Kaafi and in lower Sindh (Laarr) it is called Vaaee. Some scholars have claimed that the both Vaaee and Kaafi are the same.

There is big confusion between Vaaee and Kaafi. Vaaee is basically the call and cry of separation. Shah Inaat Rizvi of Nasarpur was the first Poet of Vaaee. After Baba Fareed Qazi Qadan, Sheikh Hamad Jamali, Ishaque Aahangar, Lutufullah Qadri, Shah Kareem, Makhdoom Nooh and other Classical Poets composed the Bait. The Baits are mainly composed in two forms: Doha and Sortha. Baba Fareed was the first Indus Valley Sindhi Poet of the Bait. Each Sur starts with the Baits and ends with the Vaaees. By art it is composed in Baits and Vaaees. Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is composed in music specially in theSurs and the Ragas.

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