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Wherever these ascetics - called pirs - died, the site became a dargah -- a sacred site.
The Sufi Dargah: A Sacred Space in India For All Faiths (PHOTOS) Smitha Khorana 2010
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The wardens of its most important shrines, including some, known as pirs, who claim descent from important saints, are among the country's biggest landowners.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2009
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The self-proclaimed saints, pirs and fakirs, who claim to have supernatural powers, knowledge of the future, a direct link to God or the power over genies have no real "secret formula" for divining the future or changing our circumstances.
Fahad Faruqui: New Year's Resolutions: Fate Or Fortitude? Fahad Faruqui 2011
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The self-proclaimed saints, pirs and fakirs, who claim to have supernatural powers, knowledge of the future, a direct link to God or the power over genies have no real "secret formula" for divining the future or changing our circumstances.
Fahad Faruqui: New Year's Resolutions: Fate Or Fortitude? Fahad Faruqui 2011
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Yet most often than not these pirs turn out to be nothing more than conmen trying to fleece a quick buck out of needy people.
unknown title 2009
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Mian Mir's love for God-loving people made him stand head and shoulders above the pirs of his time, and even in death he became a beacon of hope and inspiration for the future generations
unknown title 2009
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The veneration of saints (pirs) that is fundamental to Sufi Islam is an essential component in this network of oppression as most of these saints are closely linked to the landowners by financial and family ties.
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His love for God-loving people made him stand head and shoulders above the pirs of his time, and even in death he became a beacon of hope and inspiration for the future generations and truly lived up to his own saying that, "The hold of the friends of God is the same after their death as it was during their lifetime."
unknown title 2009
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Presently information minister, Rehman is far more diligent and intelligent than her Peoples Party peers (and pirs).
Bloggers.Pakistan 2009
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Says Liaqat Ali, a former Naxalite leader who has been coming to the fair for almost three decades, "If you put the ancestors of the other Sufi pirs on top of each other, you'll reach Hazrat Mohammad one way or the other; but not this one."
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