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....pir Ibrahim  s  courtyard  always   stayed  crowded  with  the faithful  who surrounded him for his extraordinary  power of healing ability  just by a touch of his hand,  it was said when he was just a kid a sage healed him with his blessings and left him with the power of curing  , the pir was neither a usual regular  healer nor traditionally trained,  he didn't give any charms nor  magic threads,  but people thronged to see him  and be with him and liked spending time around him for his positive thinking and positive energy,  but only he  knew it how overwhelmingly  overloaded he was with the burden of  the seekers, he was a landlord by birth , his was not a sayyad but married into the clan of sayyads, his wife was  as religious as him,   almighty  loves  the young who dedicate their youth in prayers,  both were to  spend much time praying,  he was aware he could only help others  if he  prayed enough,  his settlement would be destroyed the moment he jumped  the invisible fine line  if his limits 

Gamo and his wife after early morning breakfast would leave to reach the pir s house  in the afternoon,  they found the area vacant,  , gamo stopped a man  who was feeding the pigeons outside and told him he wanted to see  the pir,   the man said they ought to have come earlier,  the pir  has left, gamo was disappointed,  the man laughed at gamo s explanation that he had walked ten miles from his village  because others walked  more than twenty miles to see the pir