Din Muhammad Wafai

Din Muhammad Wafai (, 4 April 1894 - 10 April 1950) was a writer, poet and journalist of Sindhi language who was a member of the Khilafat Movement. Din Muhammad Wafai was born on 4 April 1894 in the village of Khathi (Sindhi: کٿي) of taluka Garhi Yaseen, district Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan. His father Khalifo Hakeem Gul Muhammad Bhatti was a scholar and poet. He received early education from his father, who died when he was nine years old. He then learnt Persian from Muhammad Alim and Arabic from Ghulam Umar of Sonu Jatoi and Ghulam Qasim of Garhi Yaseen. 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. He launched monthly Tauhid from Karachi in 1923, and Alhizb newspaper in 1927. He was appointed as an editor of daily Al-Waheed in 1930. He also served as an editor of the daily Azad. In 1940, 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. He was also member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Mehran published by the Sindhi Adabi Board. 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.