Sufi gathering spots no longer symbolize what they formerly stood for. With the rise of modern schooling, such kind of social environment vanished and did not persist into the twenty-first century. Hemin Mukryani was among those who witnessed the final moments of that social environment:
In those years khanaqa was densely populated. People could freely visit khanaqa. The disparity between its inhabitants was negligible [...] it was like Noah's Ark. There were people from different ethnicities. Wanderers, socially isolated, worshippers, Muslim, mullah, Sayyed, learned, educated, robber, thief, illiterate, crazy, idle, disabled, blind, limping and even atheist all lived together under the same roof. Afghanis, Persians, Turks, Azeris and even Indians could be seen there. [There were] Kurds with their own dialects from different parts of Kurdistan. Men who later became well-known such as Fauzi, Saifi Qazi, Peshawa Qazi Muhammad [the head of the Kurdistan Republic of 1946], haji mullah Muhammad Sharafkandi, 'Ali khan Amiri, and especially the literate aghas of Faizulabegi visited khanaqa and stayed for several months.
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