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Durweish, _darvesh_ a beggar, a religious mendicant; pretenders to the title
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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Allama Iqbal considered it an honor to sit at his feet but this darvesh called himself a soldier of Quaid e Azam.
WN.com - Articles related to State At War With People Of Kashmir: PDP 2010
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Allama Iqbal considered it an honor to sit at his feet but this darvesh called himself a soldier of Quaid e Azam.
WN.com - Articles related to State At War With People Of Kashmir: PDP 2010
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The Persians have a proverb similar to our own regarding giving to beggars, '_Avval khesh, baad darvesh_' (First our own, then the beggar.
Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873
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