faquir

Updated: May 6, 2025

His crowning achievement was spending eleven days as a faquir in the gardens of Baba Atal at Amritsar, and there picking up the threads of the great Nasiban Murder Case. But people said, justly enough: "Why on earth can't Strickland sit in his office and write up his diary, and recruit, and keep quiet, instead of showing up the incapacity of his seniors?"

Rudyard Kipling - Plain Tales from the Hills

He found a dozen diseases of which he did not so much as know the name, but half of the sufferers swore they were cured after the first dose. They would have dubbed him faquir and have foisted him to a pillar of holiness had he cared to let them. Muhammad Anim slept most of the day, like a great animal that scorns to live by rule.

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles

'O Cogia, said the people, 'why do you beat the ox; how can he be in fault? 'All the fault is his, said the Cogia, 'if he had taught him the calf would have known how to turn. One day as the Cogia was travelling in the Derbend he met a shepherd. Said the shepherd to the Cogia, 'Art thou a faquir? 'Yes, said the Cogia.

- The Turkish Jester: or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi

We are met to decide as to whether the treasure shall be removed to Pirgunge or still we keep it with us here in view of sudden sallies of foes. I hereby beg to propose and my honourable friend Mister " "Sit down, crow," said the blind faquir unkindly and there was a snigger.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

The Mohammedan was the first witness and Strickland beamed upon him from the back of the Court. The man moistened his lips with his tongue and, in his abject fear of "Estreeken Sahib" the faquir, went back on every detail of his evidence said he was a poor man and God was his witness that he had forgotten every thing that Bronckhorst Sahib had told him to say.

Rudyard Kipling - Plain Tales from the Hills

Well, in full, it is John Robin Ross-Ellison Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan, and its explanation is my descent from General Ross-Ellison, Laird of Glencairn, and from Mir Faquir Mahommed Afzul Khan, Jam of Mekran Kot". In Piccadilly, wearing the garb of Piccadilly, he looked an Englishman of the English.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life