Crossword-Solution: FAQIRS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

From this it can be readily understood that Mullahs and faqirs who pretend to have the power of making charms for all known diseases, and sell them to the people at large, are often able to enrich themselves far more rapidly than a doctor who confines himself to the ordinary methods of treatment.

Faqirs are of comparatively recent origin, dating from the time of the Muhammadan invasions, about the tenth century of our era.

Then, there are the political faqirs, who use their position to disseminate political propaganda, usually of a seditious nature.

Where the many toil together, there am I among My own; Where the tired labourer sleepeth, there am I with him alone." The ascetics of Afghanistan are almost all Muhammadans, and I shall therefore speak of them as faqirs, that being the counterpart of the Hindu Sadhu.

These faqirs have started from an entirely different religious standpoint, and travelled along a very different experimental road to those of their Hindu brethren; but the ultimate result is strikingly similar in many salient features, and Hindu asceticism and pantheistic thought have deeply coloured their ideas and habits.