the Shi'i of southern Lebanon were an underclass back in the day not the Shi'i generally who especially in India/Pakistan and Iraq are often if not Rajahs and Maharajahs certainly kind of aristocratic some of them, funnily enough though the Shia are not very sympathetic to Sufism however the famed Shia sufis of the Nimatullahi tariqa are/were led by a guy who has written a work called "The Tavern of Ruin" which is a kind of a call back to a previous conversation i get therefore to triumphantly drop the mike..simple pleasures