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.

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 Sesamo / Open Sesame

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