A Season For Martyrs: A Novel (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
984 Even the most seasoned sailor must sometimes come ashore, and nobody felt he deserved shore leave more than Khawaja Khizr. It was never easy being a Sufi saint, even if you were one of the Panj Pir, the Five Pirs. Even if you were regarded as the guardian of all waterways, oceans, seas, and rivers, and loved and worshipped by the people of Sindh—Hindu and Muslim alike—you could tire of riding a palla fish up and down the thousand miles of the Indus River, or become seasick at the sight of the blind Indus River dolphins leaping up and down to herald your arrival. There were days when your bones ached, your eyes were rheumy, and an old man sometimes wanted nothing more than to lie down and have a long, dreamless nap, despite the glory and the excitement of Pir-hood. Never mind being mentioned in the Rig Vedas, the Quran, the romances of Alexander, and the Sumerian mysteries—and in this way, Khawaja Khizr thought that his other four compatriots, Zakaria Noor Gohri, Bahauddin Zakaria, Syed Jalal Bukhari, and Lal Shahbaz, had it easy.
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