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    Charkhi and

    His Uncle

    I
    t is related that a young disciple of Baba Charkhi was sitting in the
    hallway of his house when a man arrived and said: ‘Who are you?’
    The disciple answered: ‘I am a follower of Baba Charkhi.’
    The man said: ‘How can Charkhi have followers? I am his uncle,
    and I would have known if he had. As to his being a “Baba”, you have been
    misinformed, my child.’
    Charkhi’s uncle stayed in the house after that for many years, until he
    died. He refused to enter the ‘assemblies of culture’ held by the Baba, and he
    could never credit that Charkhi was a Sufi teacher. ‘I have known him since
    he was a child,’ he said, ‘and I cannot see him teaching anything, because he
    was never able to learn anything.’
    Even after Charkhi died, there were many people, some of them frequent
    visitors to his house, including merchants with whom he had business
    dealings, who did not believe that he was a saint.
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    Yunus Abu-Aswad Kamali, the theologian, spoke for some of these when
    he said: ‘I knew Charkhi for thirty years, and he never discussed higher
    things with me. To my mind, such behaviour is impossible to a learned man.
    He never tried to describe his theories, and he did not attempt to make me
    a disciple. I only heard of his supposedly being a Sufi through the butcher.’

    Wisdom GO TO
    of the Idiots THE BOOK

    IDRIES SHAH

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