In a land of many saints and Sufis, notions and terms which have now been appropriated by western academics working on Pakistani Islam to denote any construction of Islam which disassociates itself with either the Wahabi or Deobandi variant, ‘Maulana’ Abdul Sattar Edhi, born in Bantva, Gujarat in colonial India in 1928, was considered by all denominations within Islam, and by non-Muslims as well, as a living saint, till his death on Friday. His funeral and particularly his namaaz-e-janaza represented much more of what Pakistan is today, and none of the saintliness of a faqir, which Edhi had become.
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