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Asked the disciple: “Does God exist? What is His name?” Said the Faqir: “Does it matter? “For if He exists He needs no assistance from me, nor, will He want it, being Omnipotent and Omniscient. “And if He does not I can assist Him not; All that I need to know is the path that brings peace within me. And without me”. - owais -- This is first being published on this page.

Upset at his inability to know the nature of God, the disciple asked if the Faqir did not lament his own ignorance. Asked the Faqir, “What am I not ignorant of? I am limited and can never gain infinity. “Thus any knowledge of the infinite, absolute truth, must remain, for me, a dream, unattainable. “For even if I were to know everything , how would I know that there was nothing more to know?” - owais -- This is first being published on this page.

“Does not the prospect of fulfilling a passionate desire fill your heart with joy?” asked the disciple. The Faqir smiled, “It does. But just as everything that goes up must come down, my heart knows that suffering must follow every pleasure. “And, with the fulfillment of every passionate desire, just as I am born anew; with every suffering, I die a new death. “This unending cycle of rebirth, recurring death and the futility of it all, leaves me with one abiding desire: to be free. “To be free of it all. And the prospect of this ultimate ecstasy of freedom leaves all other joys dwarfed, undesirable”. - owais -- This is first being published on this page.

As she came and sat on his exposed foot ready to suck a dropful of his sacred blood, the disciple approached to swat the hungry little mosquito. The Faqir with a little wave shooed her away and addressed the disciple thus: “she comes not to kill me in order to avoid a little discomfort, but merely to give me a little discomfort, in order to live beyond her life. Let her be. "We will see when the stakes are lower for her, and higher for me”. - owais -- This is first being published on this page.