Din Muhammad Wafai ([Sindhi: مولانا دين محمد وفائي], 4 April 1894 - 10 April 1950) was a writer, poet and journalist of Sindhi language who was a member of the Khilafat Movement.
Childhood and Education
Din Muhammad Wafai was born on 4 April 1894 in the village of Khathi (Sindhi: کٿي) of taluka Garhi Yaseen, district Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan.[1] His father Khalifo Hakeem Gul Muhammad Bhatti was a scholar and poet.[2] He received early education from his father, who died when he was nine years old.[3] He then learnt Persian from Muhammad Alim and Arabic from Ghulam Umar of Sonu Jatoi and Ghulam Qasim of Garhi Yaseen.[4]
Career
He started his career as a journalist in 1916 from Ranipur, when he launched a monthly magazine Sahifa Qadria. He then launched magazine Alkashif in 1918. He joined the daily Al-Waheed in 1920 as an assistant editor.[5] He launched monthly Tauhid from Karachi in 1923,[6] and Alhizb newspaper in 1927.[7] He was appointed as an editor of daily Al-Waheed in 1930. He also served as an editor of the daily Azad. In 1940,[8] he was selected as a member of the central advisory board for promotion of Sindhi literature and also a member of the Sindhi Dictionary committee.[9] He was also member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Mehran published by the Sindhi Adabi Board.[10] After the creation of Pakistan, in January 1949, Sindh government formed a committee to write and edit Sindhi course books, and Wafai was a member of that committee.[9]
Books
Din Muhammad Wafai authored more than 60 books.[11] These include:[1][10]
^ abAbro, Habib (1990). مولانا دين محمد وفائي (Maulana Din Muhammad Wafai) (in Sindhi) (1st ed.). Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan: Sindh Culture and Tourism Department, Government of Sindh. p. 18.