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an Oriental Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or begging monk who is regarded as a holy man or a wonder worker.
Believes poverty brings one closer to God
n.: A psychologist whose charismatic data have inspired almost religious devotion in his followers, even though the sources seem to have shinnied up a rope and vanished.
Hindu or Muslim ascetic who lives by begging.
a deceiver of true believers
a holy mendicant, Chand beseeched him to go to his house
an initiate in a mendicant Sufi order
a type of Indian mystic, that is an Indian from India not the U
religious mendicant living on charity
An Indian holy man, usually called a sadhu, who is allegedly capable of magical and miraculous feats, but survives by begging. In the Islamic cultures a fakir turns his back on the material world to follow Allah as a beggar.
A magician who specializes in fire walking, lying on a bed of nails, hammering spikes into his nose, etc., because other kinds of magic require too much practice.
A fakir or faqir (Arabic: Ùقیر 'poor') is a Sufi, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. Dictionary.com & Wiktionary.org Derived from faqr (Ùقر Arabic), Lit: poverty.
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