A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
1Will this do? There was a lothely faquir salaaming in the doorway.
2I must hear his voice again, urged the faquir.
3As a Mahommedan faquir-asMcIntosh Jellaludin-hewas all that I wanted for my own ends.
4A faquir hung about Bronckhorst's compound for twelve days.
5Then he murmured a faquir's blessing in his ear, and asked him how his second wife did.
6A man with a blood-feud, and his foe hard after him, may sleep in safety at a faquir's grave.
7They would have dubbed him faquir and have foisted him to a pillar of holiness had he cared to let them.
8Now, in the whole of Upper India, there is only ONE man who can pass for Hindu or Mohammedan, chamar or faquir, as he pleases.
9I took the Hunza men and my shikaree, Faquir, as he could translate my orders to the Levies.
10"Sit down, crow," said the blind faquir unkindly and there was a snigger.
11Such is the conduct of the faquirs of India, who condemn themselves to the most melancholy privations, and to the most severe sufferings.
12"I am told," added he, "that you have, in your country, faquirs not less insane, not less cruel to themselves."