Faqr is poverty, and for the Sufis the awareness that one possesses nothing and is nothing before God, who alone is rich. The Prophet is reported to have said that poverty is his pride. The Sufi is called faqīr, poor one, and ʿAṭṭār joins poverty to annihilation in his last valley.
Faqr
Poverty: spiritual poverty, the recognition of one’s utter need of God, from which the word fakir comes.
Also: Faqr, fakir