“There were dancers that shimmered in costumes of gold, a fakir, and a belly dancer.”

“Sometimes fakir, sometimes farceur, he dominates the scenes in which he appears.”

“A fakir because you misrepresent, and a fool because you do not begin to understand the people.”

“One story tells how Aurangzeb became rich by summoning fakirs to his palace and forcing them to accept fine khilats.”

“We do not need to become fakirs for the first way, nor monks for the second, nor scholars for the third.”

“The community of fakirs, who once inhabited this island, has now moved to an old pagoda, not far from here in the forest.”