> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 13:53:14 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe <
jwk...@bjc.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Believe NOTHING you read on Usenet! It's too easily FAKED!
>
> I had no idea we had a FAKIR in our lovely RFC community?
> And an apparent obese Fakir?
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakir
> A fakir, faqeer or faqir (/f?'k??r/; Arabic: ???? (noun of faqr)),
> derived from faqr (Arabic: ???, "poverty") is an Islamic term
> traditionally used for a Sufi Muslim whose contingency and utter
> dependence upon God is manifest in everything they do and every breath
> they take. They do not necessarily renounce all relationships and take
> a vow of poverty, some may be poor and some may even be wealthy, but
> the adornments of the temporal worldly life are kept in perspective
> and do not detract from their constant neediness of God. The
> connotations of poverty associated with the term relate to their
> spiritual neediness, not necessarily their physical neediness.[1][2]
> The faqir seeks to attain the condition of the perfect slave of Allah,
> who "delivers his trust (existence) back to its Owner." They are said
> to be "faqir ila Allah" or impoverished in comparison to Allah, which
> is the most exalted state to attain.[3][4]
>