Sunday, July 12, 2009

230. Packing-thread / بندور

Frog the title to the 23'961th Theophanic Wave. Frog to XXV:70.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

229. Wordplays 3: Shame ( vergogna / الحشمة )

Frog the title to a very big fish found in the SWB shipway # 14633 at the frogs' pond. For a portion of it, frog here.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

228. Wordplays 2: Sin ( peccato / الذنب )

Frog the title to pre-fana and post-fana existence ( SWB # 52865 ). Frog here and here to the One Who is unseen and within.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

227. Wordplays 1: Fear ( paura / الخوف )

Frog the title to the Divine Broadcast ( SWB # 43201 ) , then here ( SWB # 43206 ) to how to dress for God's Costume Party. Frog here and here to the One to Whom we (sometimes) listen.

Wordplays!

Frogs are playing with words. Or Words are playing with frogs? Whatever the case might be, feel free to join in and have fun!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

226. DSL 3 Nanan / ن

Frog the title to Cirano by Francesco Guccini, a transformative love song. To a Wiki article about the play Cyrano de Bergergerac, frog here. The Persian poem running along Nanan's fishing rod is ghazal # 2945 from Rumi, at SWB # 47312.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

225. DSL 2 Mim / م

Frog the title to Margherita by Riccardo Cocciante, a sweet love song. Frog here to the lyrics.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

224. DSL 1 Philippe / پ

Frog the title to Anna by Lucio Battisti, an Italian love song.

Desert Sufi Love

The Prayerie Dog's Poem came to an end, but in the meantime the preyerie frogs fell in love with the prayerie dog. May be because he is so turquoise, may be because he is a digger, may be because he knows the inner meaning of prayers...

Or may be are these frogs just liyng drunk in the Tavern, dreaming of Painted Deserts and Chocolatte Mountains that do not actually exist?

Who knows...but when it comes to Love, it is enough to imagine It, and Love becomes Real. Isn't the heartache real? Isn't the longing real?

The preyerie frogs, having tasted Love, slowly forget their preying, for all they wish is to pray again. So they invent froggionate, frogthetic, froggyful ways of calling the Prayerie Dog out of his many burrows.

Love is One, and while each sufi frog has a unique way to express it, all that they truly desire is the same: to be guided back to the Prayerie again.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

223. Rattlesnake Jihad / جهاد الأفعى الجرسية

Frog the title to (SWB # 15570) the lesser and the greater striving (Jihad). Should you doubt that frogs can feast on snakes, frog here.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

222. Being / Zωον / الكائن

Frog the title and go straightfrogward into the cages of the Islamic Zoo.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

221. Bathed / استحمّ

Frog the title to # 48471 and how to receive God's Unconditional Bathing.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

220. The Salat Times / لصلاة الأوقات

Frog the title to the Prayerie Dog's Poem. Frog here to an inspiring book about the Sufi prayers. Frog here to the Namaz Vakti.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

219. Tide / منجذر

Frog the title to small waves and rip-tides (# 47864).

Sunday, May 31, 2009

218. Rattlesnakes / الأفاعي الجرسية

Frog the title to the Rattlesnakes, so beautiful and misunderstood. Frog here to a sculpture of Socrate morente (Dying Socrates). The sculpture is in this Park in Switzerland.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

217. August / Agosto / أغسطس

Frog the title to # 10316 and another way of praying.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

216. Chocolate Mountains Warrior Frogs

Frog the title to # 51813 and the combat within. Frog the Chocolate Mountains, the Mecca Hills and the Valley of the Moon with its Ice Cream Canyon.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

215. I Love / Amo / انا احب

Frog the title to the first Prayerie Dog out of his burrow.

Prayers Without Fences: Prayerie Dog Idol Worship

What follows is a Sufi Poem from Shaykh Al-Kawthar. Frog on the title to the Ancient Metaphysical Question: "How did the Big Prairie emerge from the Hidden Burrow?". Enjoy this video from DesertUsa.
video

Sunday, May 17, 2009

214. Heavenly Dogs / Cani celesti / الكلاب سماوي

Frog on the title to the Prayerie Dog at Sufis Without Borders' TOR, flask # 52453; frog the Heavenly Dog Sirius; frog Qur'an 53:49.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

213. Mevlove Stars / البرج مولانا

Frog on the title to # 7014 and how to access Sufism one step at a time, i.e. how "Average Frog" Islam or "Frog Six Pack" Sufism can be the best option to begin with.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

212. Lapfrog / Lappatina / قفز الضفادع

Frog on the title to # 39322 and leap from proliferation to synthesis. Frog the Arab Asterism.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

211. Grapefulness / Grappolitudine / عنقود شاكر

Frog on the title to SWB # 48588 and the Gaping Ache. Frog the Aesop's Fable ; the Sour Grapes and a library of Star Maps .

Stargazing

A few froggy strips under the starry night...

Sunday, May 3, 2009

210. Words / Parole / الكلمات

Frog on the title to # 43673 and playing around with words in almost Kabbalistic fashion.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

209. Miraged / سراب

Frog on the title to SWB # 01273 on 1) How one should relate at the level of one's feelings and thoughts and 2) How one should relate at the level of one's actions; which is generally unclear and amphibious. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/cra67d to Qur'an 78:20.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

208. Spectre, Illusion / جادو خیالی

Frog on the title to # 12499 and psychological stability at the Sufi Banquet; on http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2852/ to *The Light Of The Eyes* (نور حدقة الأبصار و نور حديقة الأنظار ), a treatise about direct vision and optical illusion written around 1574-95 (982-1003 A.H.).

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

207. Cypress / آزاد

Frog on the title to the various meanings of آزاد āzād! Frog on http://tinyurl.com/d8yael (# 34820) and how to prevent "a bunch of monologues".

Sunday, April 19, 2009

206. There / Là, Lì / آنجا

Frog on the title to SWB # 21290 and this Quatrain of Rumi. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/22eqbt to go...there...Nowhere... ;D

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

205. No! No!! No!!! / لا / نه

Frog on the title to SWB # 24048 about loving idols and the "middle way"; on http://tinyurl.com/d9mqql to Qur'an 6:77

Sunday, April 12, 2009

204. Der Mond / La Lune / قمر/ ماه

Frog on the title to SWB # 47311 and Rumi's ghazal 2946. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/dmc6y3 to "Alla Luna", (To The Moon), a Happy Birthday! :-) poem by Giacomo Leopardi (d.1837); to the English, on http://tinyurl.com/cqqjgm.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

203. Breath / دم / Respiro

Frog on the title to SWB # 51856 about Consciousness in Breathing. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/cz2cfm to *The Zoology Coloring Book* by Lawrence M. Elson and leap to plates 79-87: it's all about frogs!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

202. Lover / Amante / بتپرست

Frog on the title to # 18904 and a line from Shaykh Shabestari. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/cpa6sx to but-parast (Steingass' p. 155).

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

201. Heresy / كفر / بدعة / Aιρεω

Frog on the title to # 22319 on good and evil; frog on http://tinyurl.com/n58r7 to a definition of heresy.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

200. Vanished / لامكان بى نشان

Frog on the title for the دیوان شمس تبریزی ; frog to SWB # 11377 and our real home through http://tinyurl.com/dg766u .

Sufi Theater: Off-Off-Toadway

Salam Dear Frogs, Frog Lovers, interested Non-Frogs and Froggars! To celebrate two hundred strips, Sufi Frogs have set up a little Sufi Theater (or Theatre, for the UK froggers) in the Pond by the Garden of the Tavern Of Ruin. There they will be occasionally reciting Sufi poetry for a sufisticated, highly selected froggish public (you). Take a comfortable stone on which to seat and while enjoying the show, please donate to feed the frogs.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

199. Allah Santé / ياالله ياسلام

Frog on the title to SWB # 34599 and a link to Peace Train. To the Inner Peace Path, frog on http://www.uga.edu/islam/ruzguide.html

Sunday, March 22, 2009

198. Consciousness / وجدان

Frog on the title to SWB # 1074 for consciousness and remembrance.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

197. Alhamdulillah / الحمدللّه

Frog on the title to SWB # 3242 and the Tavern of Thankfulness; frog on http://tinyurl.com/dkakkn to *Popeye meets Alibaba* a classic with a tavern in a desert.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

196. How (to go through) /چطور / Come

Frog on the title to how to frog through fear as a frogway to love (9113); on http://tinyurl.com/aowl9a for a Tiny Toon approach!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

195. How (to go there) /چطور / Come

Frog on the title to SWB # 51759 to get instructions on which side you should leap or frive; on http://tinyurl.com/dxnwlp for the lyrics.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

194. How (to get that) /چطور / Come

Frog on the title to the Water of Eternal Life (47344). Beware! It burns... Frog on http://tinyurl.com/cazckq to Donald's Fountain of Youth and the froguage of Love. To fraw the pattern in frame c, frog on http://tinyurl.com/aktdpy and on http://tinyurl.com/bcqdt7 .

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

193. What / چه / Cosa

Frog on the title to an ayah of strength from Surat al-Hadid (SWB # 25493).

Sunday, March 1, 2009

192. Stress! / تاٴکید / Tensione!

Frog on the title to a Vintage Ali Baba animated cartoon.

Iftah Ya Simsim / إفتة يا سمسم / Apriti O Sesamo

What frogs is an eight-strip's instalment which brings a Sufi solution for frogging stress. To frog stress is not a frog matter... but at the end of this story both frogs and frogs's lovers will be able to frog stress in a much relaxed, sufisticated way, إن شاء الله. Frog us!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

191. Absartani Absartahu / أبصرتني أبصرته

Frog on the title for the wine; frog to the Files-Cellars for more.
Frog on http://tinyurl.com/d8cgnk to Qur'an 2:152

Sunday, February 22, 2009

190. Fi Jasad! / في جسد

Frog on the title to get frunk with Najm al-Din Kubra.
Frog on http://tinyurl.com/ahph3k to Qur'an 18:23-24;
on http://tinyurl.com/b9eae2 to Qur'an 39:69;
on http://tinyurl.com/dc2ox9 to Qur'an 14:48.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

189. Ana Man Ahwa / أنا من أهوى

Frog on the title to the bottle of SWB wine. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/aakusa and on http://tinyurl.com/cwt99h to the bottle. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/czh4g9 to the wine.

A Sufi Mantra from منصور الحلاج‎

What follows is a sufi mantra in three instalments-strips. Feel free to frog it when you miss a Bbeloved that seems too frog away. It works very well. It comes from Sufi Poet Mansur al-Hallaj (d. 309 AH/922 AD) and Frogs' Shaykh frog it to them one day when they were so lovesick they were overfrogging the pond with sobs.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

188. L'Inebriante / الخمريه

Frog on the title to the Source of Ibn al-Farid's Wine Song (al-Khamriyah); beware, though: it is said that this Shaykh frog drunk more than one thousand frogs in one single evening.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

187. Spring / Primavera / بهار

Frog on the title to the original Sufi Haiku. Inner Spring is at any frogment (now).

Sunday, February 8, 2009

186. Love Phases

Frog on the title to SWB # 36817 for jadhba (attraction) and suluk (strenuous effort).

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

185. Chocolate Love-thorns (A Sufi Haiku)

Frog on the title to this Sufi Haiku froggen by Shaykh al-Kawthar. Frog to SWB # 30216 for the "Shariat of Haiku".

Sunday, February 1, 2009

184. Salsabil / سلسبيلا

Frog on http://tinyurl.com/bgtl74 to Salsabil (Qur'an 76: 17-18). Frog on the title to drink from the Fountain of Books in Rome, Italy. Frog Rome and its many Fountains http://www.tesoridiroma.net/.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

183. Riches / يامغنى / ياغنى

Frog on the title to Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri's shrine.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

182. Dhikr / ذکر

Frog on the title to Dhikrullah, Ahadiyah and Wahidiyah. Frog to http://www.uga.edu/islam/sufismdhikr.html for a wider understanding of the Sufi practice of Dhikr (remembrance of God).

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

181. Nulla / هيچ چيز

Frog on the title to the Unchanging Sunnah and on riding camels today. Frog on http://tinyurl.com/95jfow to Surah 48 al-Fath - The Victory, ayah 23.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

180. Cavalcatura / Mount / ركائب

Frog on the title to SWB # 42410 to know where the poem comes from. Frog on the Sufi Bookstore http://sufibookstore.blogspot.com/ for *Sufi Poems A Medioeval Anthology* by Martin Lings (and much much more).

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

179. حب / Love / Amore / عشق

Frog on the title to SWB # 42391; frog to http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/. Have a frog trip!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

178. Ya Jabbar! / يا جبر

Frog on the title to SWB # 32009 with Hafiz; frog on http://tinyurl.com/9ahcp7 to The Restorer, one of the 99 Names of Allah; frog to SWB # 30596 http://tinyurl.com/9jaktp for the Divine Names and the existence of the cosmos in Ibn 'Arabi.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

177. Ruin / Disastro / ويرانى

Frog on the title to Rumi's advice on how to frog the path of love

Sunday, January 4, 2009

176. Paura dell'Onda / بيم موج

Flick on the title if you have no fear of the freave, and try to frog these: "Shab-i-tariq o bim-i mauj wa girdabi chunin hall / Kuja danand hal-i-ma sabuk barani sahilaha". Frood Fruck! Per Hafez in italiano, flicca http://sufinews.blogspot.com/search?q=einaudi

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

175. Nel Mar della Poesia / دريا از شعر

Flick on the title or feap on SWB # 37821 to R.W. Emerson's Essay on Persian Poetry. Frappy reading! Flick on http://tinyurl.com/a2r7rn to Sura 26: The Poets.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

174. Separations / جداييها

Flick on the title to the frogoteric froguage of the Kefiriya Froggiya; on http://tinyurl.com/9224ye (SWB # 31062) if you really want to get frunk by frinking Rumi; on http://tinyurl.com/7krjnw to freap on the Rumi Tavern.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

173. Canzone della Canna / مشنوى معنوى

Frog on the title for advice on frogs resources if you are interested in frogging Persian poetry; frog on http://www.dar-al-masnavi.org/reedsong.html#4. for various froggations of the "Song of the Reed" (Masnavi Book/libro 1°, vv. 1-34).

Sunday, December 21, 2008

172. Sailing / Navigando / کشتى باده

Click on the title to a good glass of Rumi; http://tinyurl.com/4na9e3 to the Persian Wines' Cellar; http://tinyurl.com/9t8zxw or http://www.rivaditraiano.com/ to a Frogs's marina.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

171. The Hidden Tavern / ميخانه چنهان

Sob. Click on the title to the Obituary for Dear Sister Dr. Hind's Dad.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

170. Βατραχοκύκνων Θαυμαστά / Of Athens' Frogs

Click on the title to the play *Frogs* by Aristophanes (d. ca. 386 BC) featuring the chorus of the most wonderful Swan-Frogs [Batrakokiuknon Thaumasta].
Click http://books.google.com/books?q=frogs to other books about frogs

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

169. Caldarroste Party! / شاه بلوت برشتن

Click http://tinyurl.com/6l6gbr to فطرة Fitra (SWB # 48476)
Click http://www.wikihow.com/Roast-Chestnuts to a how-to-roast chestnuts recipe
Click on the title to a how-to-draw a chestnut with Sumi-e ink video

Sunday, December 7, 2008

168. Felicity / اسعاد

Click on the title to how the frogs remembered their primordial bird-fitra

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

167. The Eagle's Nest / قلعة الموت

Click on the title to the "wird" (litany, invocation) in SWB # 29447
Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamut to the Eagle's Nest or Teachings

Sunday, November 30, 2008

166. Toward the Tavern / ره ميخانه

Click on the title to rah-e maykhanah (la via all'osteria)

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

165. Ya Nur! / يا نور

Click on the title to Sura An-Noor 24:35

Sunday, November 23, 2008

164. Ibn al-Waqt (Frog-of-the-Moment) / ابن الوقت

Click on the title to SWB # 01993 to know why the Sufi is called the Son of the Moment (Ibn al-Waqt).

London's Shadow Part II / سايه۲

Thank you for joining the Sufi Frogs in their Mickey Mouse 80th Birthday's Party! We are now back to London's Shadow, Part II.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

163. Is Mickey A Shaykh?

Click on the title to Sufis Without Borders # 37752 "Who is a Shaykh?"

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse to Wiki Mickey; click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEaT_UQnVM to SteamBoat Willie and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAjyW6ddGdw to Plane Crazy

Click to Disney Archives http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/steamboat/steamboat.html and to Disney Family Museum http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/collection/masterworks/steamboat/index.html

Monday, November 17, 2008

Intervallo

London's Shadow Part I is now over. While Mim and Nanan experience Sakhinah (inner peace) and Phil mumbles upon his Nothingness, someone very dear to all Cartoons Lovers is about to turn 80. So, please, join the Sufi Frogs in their little celebrating party and find the answer to a burning sufi question...!
London's Shadow Part II will be here on Sunday 23rd, Inshallah.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

162. Nothing / Niente / هيچ چيز

Click on the title to SWB # 36870 about Intrinsic Human Dignity, which is not contingent upon anything except...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

161. Essence / Faccia / چهره

Click on the title to SWB # 10358 about the burning question: "What is my true essence?".
Click http://tinyurl.com/64b275 to Qur'an 89: 27-30

Sunday, November 9, 2008

160. Cloud / Nuvola / ابر

Click on the title to a couplet of 13th century Sufi Fakhr al-Din al'Iraqi on nuts, shells and the relationship between existence and God (SWB # 22498).

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

159. Esteem / Valore / هفت

Click on the title to SWB # 43814 about 3:134 --restraining anger

Sunday, November 2, 2008

158. Mirror / Specchio / اينه

Click on the title to a quatrain of Dara Shikoh

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

157. Froggy Way / via Rana / راه چجز

Click on the title to SWB # 26411 "All created beings are the abridged copy of the planes related to the Divine names"
Click http://tinyurl.com/666hwq to learn how to draw a cartoon frog

Sunday, October 26, 2008

156. L'ombra di Londra (London's Shadow) / سايه

Click on the title to SWB # 44003. Beware! Spoiler Alert.
Click to...? if you do not fear the Shadow ;D http://tinyurl.com/5hcspm

Thursday, October 23, 2008

155. Are The Smurfs Sufis? / I Puffi Sono Sufi?

Click on the title to Peyo, the Father of the Smurfs

Click to the Belgian Comic Strip Center's Great Exhibition Smurf for All, All for Smurf, 50 Years of Smurfs http://tinyurl.com/6dz45v

Per un'analisi del linguaggio dei Puffi, vedi il saggio "Schtroumpf und Drang" di Umberto Eco nel suo Sette anni di desiderio, Bompiani 1983 http://tinyurl.com/5wkqbf

Click to a Smurf Video News http://tinyurl.com/5f8va8

Smurfs's images are drawn from the album "UN SCHTROUMPF PAS COMME LES AUTRES" by Peyo, Ed. Jean Dupuis 1976

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

154. Ziyara (Shrine Visitation) / زيارة

Click on the title to Surat Al Kahf (18): 24

Sunday, October 19, 2008

153. Dunya / دنيا

Click on the title to Dr. Nurbakhsh biography.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

152. Back Home / 23:79; 67:24 / واليه تحشرون

Click on the title to "wailayhi tuhsharoona".
Click to the Nimatullahi Sufi Order http://www.nimatullahi.org/

Sunday, October 12, 2008

151. Jazak Allahu Khair / جزاك اللهُ خيراً

Click on the title to the meaning of the title
Leap to the world's knowledge http://www.bl.uk

Or. 3714, folio 395 b


The official reason by which they keep the original manuscript locked up is that Or. 3714 is one of the rarest items in the Persian collection and really does have to be guarded against overuse. But the truth is this: it has Frogs, inside. And these Frogs, as written in the Babur Nama, "though otherwise like others, run 6 or 7 yards on the face of the water". It is easy to assume that they are Sufi Frogs.

Vaqi'at-i Baburi


This is copy n° 680 of the printed edition of a manuscript of the Babur Nama, illustrated with outstanding miniatures. Printed in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) in 1969, it was bought by me [the cartoonist] in an antique shop in Kabul (Afghanistan) in 1975. The original manuscript, as I found out later, is kept in the United Kingdom, within a secret vault, well guarded by fierce Dragons.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

150. Depression / Torpore / كسادى

Click on the title [to SWB # 26361] to know more about Post-Ramadan Depression.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

149. Help! / Aiuto! / كمك

Should you need help, click on the title to SWB # 44024

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

148. ill Allah / عيد مبارك

Click on the title to SWB # 814. Click on this link http://tinyurl.com/3l84u7 for the real one.
Eid Mubarak! Ya Haqq!!!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

147. La ilaha / لا ٳِله

Click on the title to Qur'an 2:163. Click on the following links to constellation Swan (Cygnus) http://tinyurl.com/4yegv7 and Little Fox (Vulpecula) http://tinyurl.com/3ukmhd.html.
Ramadan Mubarak!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

146. Stumbling / Inciampare / پاى لغزى

Click on the title to SWB # 814. Spoiler Alert!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

و هو معكم اينما كنتم ٥٧:٤

Click on the title to Wa huwa ma'akum aynama kuntum (Egli è con voi dovunque voi siate) Qur'an 57:4. Ramadan Karim! -- [strip n° 145/SWB # 814]

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

144. Guttersnipe / پسر از جوى

Frogs wish you a Blessed Ramadan, dear Ragazzo del Rigagnolo!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

143. Take Off / hawas kardan / هوس کردن

Click on the title to hawas kardan. Happy Ramadan! ;D -- [2/6]

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

142. Runways

Stumbling vs. Flying 1/6: Runways; click on the title to SWB # 00814 (Spoiler alert!)
Click to Hafez's ghazal http://tinyurl.com/65eh6h
Click to the Airport http://tinyurl.com/5v9btc

Sunday, September 7, 2008

141. Post bar duhul bastan / پوست بردهل بستن

Click on the title to SWB # 38800. Ramadan Mubarak!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

140. Call to Tavern / ميخانه مؤذن

Click on the title to the Song of a Poor Drunkard (SWB # 47873). Click on this link to Alkes http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/alkes.html

Sunday, August 31, 2008

139. Fruit Salat / miwa'i dil / ميوه ديل

Click on the title to SWB # 47850. You might also like # 47441, # 36817 and # 3015. Ramadan mubarak! Enjoy!!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

138. Qadeem Pump / Antica pompa / پمپ قديمى

Click on the title to the Qadeem Pump ;D

Sunday, August 24, 2008

3:64 / one of His


Click on the title to all articles and videos of the 2008 Conference (July 29 - 31) "Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed: Implications for Christians and Muslims" - held at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale Divinity School - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA -- [strip n° 137]

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

136 / ١٣ / / Mother / madre / مادر


Click on the title to مادر

Sunday, August 17, 2008

135 / ١٢ / Game / Gioco / شكار


Click on the title for شكار

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

134 / ١١ / Muhasaba / المحاسبه


Click on the title to an article about Muhasaba; click on this link to the Writer's Home http://en.fgulen.com/

Sunday, August 10, 2008

133 / ١٠ / Blood and Budella / خون و روده ها


Click on the title to SWB # 10476; on the following links to a classical Mickey's "blood and guts" story http://tinyurl.com/5u57lm

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

132 / ٩ / a’udhu bi-ka min-ka / اعوذ بك منك


Click on the title for practical hints to get rid of negative thoughts!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

131 / ٨ / You! Son of a Frog!! / تو فرزند از قورباغه اى


Click on the title for an Adab (manners / respectful dialog) Reminder at Sufis Without Borders

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

130 / ٧ / Transformation / dil tabdil / دل تبديل


Click on the title to a Tadpole Coloring Page (Indiana University)

Sunday, July 27, 2008

129 / ۶/ âyâ in taSawwuf ast? / ايا اين تصوف است

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

128 /٥/ Soul / Anima / Jân / جان


Click on the title to SWB # 24531 [on Beer, Bir and Pir] :D

Sunday, July 20, 2008

127 /٤/ Hidden Drum / Daf penhAnI / د ف پنهانى


Click on the title to Rumi's # 3149, on http://tinyurl.com/6ek9je for translation and drummer lingo; to a Tavern in Isfahan click on http://tinyurl.com/6gvq7s

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

126 /۳/ Essere e chi essere / بودن و كى بودن


Click on the title to Sufis Without Borders # 47251

Sunday, July 13, 2008

125 /۲/ budan va ki budan / بودن و كى بودن

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

124 /۱/ To Be and Who To Be / بودن و كى بودن


Click on the title to Sufi News then search for Gülen

Sunday, July 6, 2008

۱٢٣ / Fanin Wayabqa / Estinzione e Sussistenza / فان و يبقى


Click on the title to enter the Tavern and read the complete poem of Sa'di (d. 1292) translated by Sidi 'Abd al-Haqq
Click on this link http://tinyurl.com/6a77u6 to Sura 55 Al-Rahman

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

١٢٢ / King and Beggar / Shâh va faqira / شاه و فقر


To know more about Kings and Beggars, click on the title to Project Gutenberg and search for *Modern Persia* or click http://tinyurl.com/5fzdbk to Sufis Without Borders # 47251

Sunday, June 29, 2008

۱٢۱ / That and This / ân va in / آن و اين


If you are not familiar with the perceptual illusion in the central frame, click on the title, then here: http://tinyurl.com/alaja

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

۱٢٠ / Blows / zarbéân / ضربان


Click on the title to the Ace of Wands

Sunday, June 22, 2008

۱۱۹ / Poison and Pain / zahr va dard / زھر و درد


Click on the title to the whole poem (SWB # 38798)

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

١١٨ / Hidden Core / Gowhar / گوهرى


Sunday, June 15, 2008

١١٧ / Dawn / Alba / Sahar / سحر


Click on the title to a definition of Dawn

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

١١٦ / Universo / Jahân / جهان


Click on the title to the whole poem (SWB # 38798)

Sunday, June 8, 2008

١١٥ / Shiraz Wine Brew / شراب شيرازى


Click on the title to SWB # 38798
Click to a portrait of Saadi http://tinyurl.com/2yzsbj

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

١١٤ / Happy Birthday ! / تولد مبرك


Click on the title to meet Professor Chittick

Sunday, June 1, 2008

١١٣ / Dust / Polvere / Khâk / خاک


Click on the title to SWB # 00374
Click to the Golestan in Farsi http://tinyurl.com/5k8msh

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

١١٢ / Golestan / Roseto / گلستان


Click on the title to the Golestan
SWB # 00113 with SWB # 00117 http://tinyurl.com/6ckaas
Golestan for All Age Kids: http://tinyurl.com/62j5l3

Sunday, May 25, 2008

١١١ / Sajjada ( prayer mat ) / به مى سجاد رنگين


Click on the title to a rhymed translation of Hafiz's Ghazal # 1
Click to SWB # 39536 http://tinyurl.com/5qxrhb

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

١١٠/ Colors / Ranghâ / رنگها


Click on the title to SWB # 14317 on Sufi Bozos and Shades of Grey
Click below to Cocco Bill, the Italian Shaykh of Brawls http://tinyurl.com/6djb9u

Sunday, May 18, 2008

١٠٩ The black face / sawad al-wajh / سواد الوجه


18.05.08 Click the title to SWB # 4157

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

١٠٨ Poh Folk / Ya ayyuha n-nas... / يٲيُّہاٱنَّسُ


14.05.08 Click on the title to Surat 35 al-Fatir
Click http://tinyurl.com/5q355a to SWB # 39031

Sunday, May 11, 2008

١٠٧ / Zalal al-fuqarā´ / الفقره


11.05.08 Click on the title to RELI 4301/6301 Syllabus
Click http://tinyurl.com/5e6mbe to a review of the Dazzling Pearls
Click http://astore.amazon.com/wilderwri-20 to the Sufi Book Store

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

١٠٦ / Fana Fillah / فنإ


07.05.08 Click http://tinyurl.com/5h6z62 to SWB # 1080 (on Fana)
and http://tinyurl.com/6a2xdn to SWB # 1075 (more on Fana)

Click on the title to *Junayd: The Book of Fana'*
(in Early Islamic Mysticism by Michael Anthony Sells)

Sunday, May 4, 2008

١٠٥ / Dhikr (a.) / Zekr (p.) / ذکر


04.05.08 - strip # 105 --centocinque / sad panj / صد پنج
Click on the title to know more about the Sufi practice of Dhikr

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

104. Is this lesson easy? / آيا اين درس آسان است


Click on the title to the SWB # 44622 lesson on pronunciation. If you want more, drink from # 37776 and if you want more than more, drink from # 8786

Sunday, April 27, 2008

103. Questo pozzo acqua ha! / آين چاه آب دارد

27.04.08 - The title says: This well has water (in câh âb dârad)
Click on the title to Sufis Without Borders' # 11657 on Qanats. Click below to a Wiki article about Persian Wells http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

102. Fissatissima! / negâh-e khiré / نگاه خي ه


23.04.08 Click on the title to SWB # 31087

Sunday, April 20, 2008

101. Succo d’uva / آب انگور


20.04.08 - Click on the title to SWB # 7268
Click for a Kidipede article about Socrates http://tinyurl.com/y448a5
Click for a Kidipede article about Sufism http://tinyurl.com/56osna

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

100. Questa acqua è / in âb ast / اين آب است


16.4.08 Click on the title to SWB # 44615
Click for the Name (beware that your heart might crack, better if you have a Shaykh at hand) http://tinyurl.com/6kuzmx

Sunday, April 13, 2008

99. Quello un pozzo è / ân câh ast / آن چاه است


13.04.08 - click on the title to Ilya Frank's site for English Speakers

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

98. Shiraz شيراز (A Sufi Sense of Time)


09.04.08 Click on the title to a related article on Sufi News
Click to a short bio of Professor Italo Pizzi, Iranologist: http://tinyurl.com/6hjh32

Sunday, April 6, 2008

97. Shariah ال شريعه


06.04.08 Click on the title to a related article on Sufi News
Click to the relevant part of SWB # 10507 http://tinyurl.com/6bpzkg

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

96. Ya Jami'! Ya Hadi!! ياجامع ياهادى


02.04.08 Click to SWB # 45171 http://tinyurl.com/2opco8
Click to all Asma al-Husna http://www.sufism.org/society/asma/

Sunday, March 30, 2008

95. A Kitchen in Paradise


30.03.08 Click on the title to read (and listen to) Surat 108

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

94. Beyond the Wall [SWB # 31806]


26.03.08

Sunday, March 23, 2008

93. Not Quite A Perfect Servant [SWB # 37076]


23.03.08

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

92. Don't [Lo(o)se] It! [SWB # 00128]


19.03.08 - Click on the title for a Wiki article about Cinderella.
Visit Disney's Cinderella at the Walt Disney Family Museum

Sunday, March 16, 2008

91. Jadhba / Suluk [SWB # 36817]


16.03.08 - Click on the title or on http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/ and make your choice to support Justice

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

90. A Basic Educational Principle [SWB # 00705]


12.03.08 Click on the title for Nature's Golden Chain. Click on the links below for three Spiritual Golden Chains:
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/names.htm
http://www.goldensufi.org/GoldenChain.html
http://www.tareeqa.com/

Sunday, March 9, 2008

89. A Trap for the Nafs [SWB # 43844]


09.03.08 Click on the title to know why frogs are in danger, and on the link below for the Year of the Frog

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

88. Check Your Guns at the Door [SWB_#_13769; SWB_#_13804]


05.03.08 Click on the title to meet the Man behind the Door...!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

87. Criteria [SWB # 10507]


02.03.08 Click on the title to reach the Tavern

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

86. Shattering the Prison [SWB # 31062]


27.02.08 If you think that carbonation is but a froggy business...click on the title!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

85. Kefiriya Feelings [SWB 42450]


24.02.08 Click on the title to visit Tbilisi

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

84. Sufis With Kefir SWK [SWB # 44024]


20.02.08 *Professor's Drago angry line in the central panel is a somehow harsh italian expression that could be loosely translated as: "Oh [my] frogs! What is this [loud] noise?".
- Click on the title to go to a Wiki page about Kefir.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

83. Serenata alla Buona Fortuna [SWB # 15385]


17.02.08 Click on the following link to go to Sura Yunus http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=10

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

82. Hearts [SWB # 15381]


13.02.08 Every day is Lovers' Day. Click on the title to read about Love in Sufism. And, also... click on your heart :D

Sunday, February 10, 2008

81. States of Consciousness [SWB # 15378]


10.02.08 - Click on the title to meet the weirdest Italian master of cartoon consciousness. Click on this Wiki link for an English article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Jacovitti. Enjoy!

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

80. Lubb al-lubb [SWB 15358 (series)]


06.02.08 - click on the title to go to the core of the cone. Click on the following Wiki links for more of the core and more on the cone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_(geometry)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer_cone http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cono_gelato

Sunday, February 3, 2008

79. Enneagram related ideas [SWB # 15551]


03.02.08 - click on the title for a Chishti treatise on the Sufi symbolism of the letters (be patient, opens in a few moments).

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

78. Mad Madh'hab [SWB # 03316]


30.01.08

Sunday, January 27, 2008

77. Yek, Do, Sé, Madreseh!


27.01.08 - Yek, do, sé, madreseh! is one among those games teenagers play. It largely draws from "Uno, due, tre, stella!" which is one among those games children play. Click the title for [a Wiki page explaining] the original children game. Should you not read Italian :-( from there you can reach the English version of Wiki :-) or -better?- have the Italian translated: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en. Enjoy!

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

76. Ha-ha-ha! [SWB # 37794]


23.01.08 - click on the title, then to "Song" (menu on the left side) to listen to a good laughter

Sunday, January 20, 2008

75. Persian Parnassus [SWB_#_37821;SWB_#_39536]

20.01.08 - Click on the title for Mount Parnassus, home of poetry, music, and learning (according to Greek mythology).
Visit Mount Damavand, the dormant volcano and alleged house of the Simorgh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Damavand.
Click here: http://www.theshahnameh.com/comicbook.htm for a comic book version of the Shahnameh.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

74. On the Persian Learning Path [SWB_#_37886]


16.01.08

Sunday, January 13, 2008

73. Chocolate Whirl [SWB # 42256]


13.01.08 - click on the title for some whirling titbit

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

72. Bismi-LLâh [SWB # 38784; SWB # 42256]


09.01.08 - click on the title to go to the SOAS

Sunday, January 6, 2008

71. Hic Hic et Nunc [SWB # 12866; # 42342]


06.01.08 - click on the title for the Merriam-Webster's "hic et nunc"

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

70. Khawf (Paura)! [SWB # 12708; # 15396]


02.01.08 Click on the title to meet Diabolik...but have a drink, first!

Sunday, December 30, 2007

69. A' Professo' (Ya Ostâd) [SWB # 12857; # 31062]


30.12.07

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

68. Les Sgrenouillettes [SWB # 37776]


26.12.07

Sunday, December 23, 2007

67. What if...? [SWB # 37884]


23.12.07 - click on the title for this Sufi Evening (EP, EU, Bruxelles)

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

66. A (very) Good Reason [SWB # 12866]


19.12.07 - click on the title to reach Europa

Sunday, December 16, 2007

65. Searching for Sources [SWB # 41522]


16.12.07 - click on the title to visit les Musées Royaux

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

64. HIMMA, HAFIZ! [SWB # 32009]


12.12.07

Sunday, December 9, 2007

63. SO SIMILAR...? [SWB # 34248]


09.12.07

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

62. ANOTHER FACE OF THE BELOVED [# 14896]


05.12.07

Sunday, December 2, 2007

61. VINTAGE QAHR [SWB # 32282]


02.12.07

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

60. TROUBLED WATERS [SWB # 14896]


28.11.07

Sunday, November 25, 2007

59. Love's Swamp [SWB # 04344]


25.11.07

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

58. A CERTAIN SORT OF WINE [SWB # 04344]


21.11.07

Sunday, November 18, 2007

57. INNER STORM [SWB # 34248]


18.11.07

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

56. COME DOWN COME BACK [SWB # 34248]


14.11.07

Sunday, November 11, 2007

55. WEIRD FOOD [SWB # 34248]


11.11.07

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

54. ALLAH'S RESTAURANT [SWB # 10341]


07.11.07

Sunday, November 4, 2007

53. TA'LIMIYAH (COOKING CLASS) [SWB # 10358]


04.11.07

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

52. INNER PRAYERIE [SWB # 15068; # 15081]


31.10.07

Sunday, October 28, 2007

51. THAT'S WHY


28.10.07

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

50. THE BRAND OF HIS CARPET


24.10.07

Sunday, October 21, 2007

49. JONUN [SWB # 28381; # 37824]


21.10.07

Sunday, October 14, 2007

48. JET LAG


14.10.07

Sunday, October 7, 2007

47. ERRATIC


07.10.07

Sunday, September 30, 2007

46. LOVE IS FOR QJOHNNY [SWB # 37765]


30.09.07

Sunday, September 23, 2007

45. A FLIGHT WITH THE SHAYKH


23.09.07

Sunday, September 16, 2007

44. DON'T CRY YA SILLY WABBIT


16.09.07

Sunday, September 9, 2007

43. THE CALL


09.09.07

Sunday, September 2, 2007

42. MAN MAST-E MEY-E VAHDATAM [# 28381]


02.09.07

Sunday, August 26, 2007

41. OH DRAGO! COME SEI TONDO [SWB # 28381]


26.08.07

Sunday, August 19, 2007

40. YA HAYY [SWB # 34769]


19.08.07

Sunday, August 12, 2007

39. MOONLIGHT


12.08.07

Sunday, August 5, 2007

38. AL-ZULUMAAT [SWB # 26361]


05.08.07

Sunday, July 29, 2007

37. "MEYAN-E" [SWB # 02471; # 36772]


29.07.07

Sunday, July 22, 2007

36. MARAKEH BARAD KHANE? [SWB # 01546]


22.07.07

Saturday, July 21, 2007

35. MAN MAST-O TO DIVANE! [SWB # 01546]


15.07.07

34. LOST! [SWB # 01546]


08.07.07

33. UN PASTICCIO [SWB # 34902; # 13802]


01.07.07

32. ALLA SALUTE [SWB # 32809]


24.06.07

31. KHARABAT [SWB # 32809]


17.06.07

30. LUTFUNDA HOSH QAHRINDA [SWB # 31750]


10.06.07

29. A LIGHT SUITCASE


03.06.07

28. SIPPARATION'S WINE


27.05.07

27. FIREFLIES


20.05.07

26. SALAAM FROGGA


13.05.07

25. LOVERS DRUNK [SWB # 32336]


06.05.07

24. IT'S NOT MY FAULT [SWB # 10627]


29.04.07

23. QURANIC FATIGUE SYNDROME [# 10627]


22.04.07

22. FOR THE $AKE OF THE PROFIT [ # 10627]


15.04.07

21. SALAT MACHINES [SWB # 10627]


08.04.07

20. AHWAL MUWAHHADAH [SWB # 10627]


01.04.07

19. JOKES FOR TIPPLERS [SWB # 29905]


18.03.07

18. A FROG IN THE BOX [SWB # 29291]


11.03.07

17. ABSENCE


04.03.07

16. BEAUTY / UGLINESS [SWB # 25381]


25.02.07