It is said that his visit to Delhi in 1700, along with his divan of Urdu ghazals created a ripple in the literary circles of the north, inspiring them to produce stalwarts like Zauq, Sauda and Mir.

Although Wali tried his hand at a variety of verse forms including the masnavi, qasida, mukhammas, and the rubai., the ghazal is his speciality.

[citation needed] Some of his famous couplets are: Raqeebon Dil Mein Kataari Lagay[3] His favorite theme was love – both mystical and earthy – and his characteristic tone was one of cheerful affirmation and acceptance, rather than of melancholy grumbling.

He was the first Urdu poet to have started the practice of expressing love from the man's point of view, as against the prevailing convention of impersonating as a woman.

If, on the one hand, Wali unraveled the beauty and richness of the native language as a poetic medium, on the other, he was alive to the vigor and verve of Persian diction and imagery which he successfully incorporated into the body of his verse.

He may thus be called the architect of the modern poetic language, which is a skillful blend of Aam Boli and Persian vocabulary.

[4][5][6][7] After protests from citizens and literary class of city, the Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Gujarat High Court.