Matiari Taluka

Matiari
—  Tehsil  —
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
District	Matiari District
Government
– Nazim	Azhar Hussain Shah
– Naib Nazim	Parwaiz Ali Memon
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
Website	http://www.matiari.edu.pk/

Matiari Taluka is an administrative subdivision, (taluka), of Matiari District in the Sindh province of Pakistan.^[1]

Brief History of Matiari

Sindh is the valley of Saints. Ancient Sindh was spread up to Multan (Now in Punjab Province). Islam was firstly spread through the preachers (Sahabas and Saints) who educated the people of this valley through their teachings. Since last several hundreds of years the region of Sindh from Nawabshah to Thatta is known as area of Sahteya (Literature & Education) and Matiari is the center of this region.

Matiari is the one of oldest territory of Sindh. It has a very bright past from educational point of view. This region produced a number of religious scholars, educators, intellectuals, poets which spread the essence of their knowledge all over the Indian subcontinent.

Matiari is the land of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, the great Saint, Sufi poet and lover of Sindh and the world as well.

In old days of British Government, it always acquired Fatwa from scholars (Ullema's) of Matiari according to Muslim Law to decide Muslim disputes in court of law. Akhund Azizullah who was the first translator of Quran in Sindhi language was also native of Matairi.

The First & Last “Shaheed” of the Khilafat Movement Muhammad Raheem Qazi was the citizen of Matiari.

Matiari was established by Syeds, whose forefathers had come from Herat, Afghanistan, before them there was a small village of the tribe “Chang” at this place.

Around 1400 A.C the forefather of Sayeds (who are basically the Arabs and do belong to the family of the Islamic prophet Mohammed), Sayed Ameer Hyder Shah came in to Sindh with Taimoor Lang, the great grand father of Mughals and married the daughter of Shah Muhammad Halo, who was the knight of his tribe in town Hala. On call of his father from Herat, Sayed Ameer Hyder Shah returned to his home land and here his wife gave birth to a boy and gave him the name Sayed Meer Ali Shah.when this boy grown up he went to his father’s home land, where his father was not alive. Then he returned to his mother land with his father’s brother and a lot of wealth of his legacy. After return he did not settle in Hala, but came to the place where now Matiari do exist. As he had a lot of money, so he purchased a lot of lands and fully settled down at here along with his mother. Then he got married with a woman from his mother’s family. All the Sayeds of Matiari, Bhanoth, Sun, Tikher are his grand children.

About the name Matiari, it is said that, before settling at here Sayed Meer Ali Shah was firstly settled in a village Mutaalo near to Shahdadpur, district Sanghar, then he settled at the place which is called Matiari, so these Sayeds were called the people of "Mutaalo", which changed to "Mutaalvi", and then "Matiari".

References

1. ^ Tehsil Nazims & Naib Tehsil Nazims in the District of Matiari