Sufiji was a walking Ouija board, he claimed he had visitations all the time, and in the pre- namaaz gossip sessions whenever he casually let it drop that ‘So-and-so [some long-dead ancestor] came to see me last night’, we children were immediately excluded from the conversation. I don’t know for a fact if these visions Sufiji had were geared towards attention grabbing or if he was pretending to pass on messages from the hereafter while actually being goaded to settle family politics, or if he was just stoned all the time.

