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Updated: June 20, 2025
"O friends, to this fakir's story listen a little; I will tell it to you, from first to the last, listen; Whose cure no physician can perform; My pain is far beyond remedy, listen." In the seven climes, there is no kingdom equal to that ancient kingdom; the star of that country is the sun, and of all the seven constellations it is the greatest.
You can not kill any man before his time comes, even if a thousand tons of solid masonry combine with you to whelm him, and go hurtling through the air with him to absolutely obvious destruction. The fakir's time had come, and the prisoners' time had come. But Sergeant William Brown's had not.
"Silence!" ordered Brown. "Here. Hold the lamp." The bayonet-point pressed against the fakir's ribs, and he drew back an inch or two to get away from it. He was evidently able to feel pain when it was inflicted by any other than himself. "Come on," growled the sentry. "Forward. Quick march. If you don't want two inches in you!" "Don't use the point!" commanded Brown. "You might do him an injury.
There were about a hundred gallons of oil in this caldron, and the fire was burning beneath it. Then the King's son, lifting the Fakir, gave him a jerk and threw him into the caldron, and he was burnt, and became roast meat. He then saw a key of the Fakir's lying there; he took this key and opened the door of the Fakir's house.
And for right Bountiful and may God have mercy on Beneficient is His Godhead, him who saith: and Allah have mercy on him who said; Renouncement, lowliness, the Garb of Fakir, renouncement, fakir's garments be; In lowliness; patched and tattered clothes His robe of tatters and of rags still fares the devotee. his dress;
The Beluchi interpreted, and Brown thought that the fakir's eyes gleamed with something rather more than their ordinary baleful light. It might have been the dancing flames that lit them, but Brown thought he saw the dawn of reason. "Say that if I let my men kill him, my men will believe me superhuman, and his men will know that he is only a man with a withered arm!
We must take him on to El Obeid." "The Fakir's Oasis is close at hand," said another; "let us bear him there. The holy man will know best what to do with him, and the shorter the journey the better for his life." "You speak the words of wisdom, Meouf," said the leader; "let us lift him on to your camel; it has the easiest pace."
The following night, on the return of the prince from his visit to Gulizar, he and the vizier's son, taking the horses and bags of muhrs, went to a graveyard about a mile or so distant. It was arranged that the vizier's son should act the part of a fakir and the prince the part of the fakir's disciple and servant.
I will do your errand for you to the Fakir Barak el Hadgi." So saying, he entered the Mosque, and presently returned with the Fakir's answer, in these enigmatical words: "He who would see the sun rise must watch till the dawn."
Brown's disciplining methods were a too recently encountered fact to be outdone by a fakir's promise of any kind of not-yet-met damnation. "Sahib, he says that because your man has touched him, both you and your man shall lie within a week helpless upon an anthill, still living, while the ants run in and out among your wounds.
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