A fakir is a Muslim mystic who lives in poverty. The word used in most Western languages derives from the Arabic faqīr (pl. fuqarāʾ ), which means "poor, destitute"; faqr means "poverty." Appearing twelve times in the Qurʾān and in several ḥadīth s, the word means, amongst other meanings that are more numerous and literal and synonymous with miskīn (pauper), the human condition of being in need of God-human beings are ontologically indigent, whereas God alone is self-sufficient (Q 35:15, 47:38)-a sense that inspired the Ṣūfī