504c Eid Mubarak!

...Lauretta and Rosetta reach the Marketplace just when the Vendors are clearing their Stalls.

504b

After a day of grueling work teaching Art and Maths at the local school...

504a

Let's now leave the Mullah at his Workshop. We shall follow his Wives to the Marketplace.

503c

This time we can't be late!
We?!?

503b

Gasp! Only a few days left.

503a

After the musical interlude, Mullah Frögüddin sits at his drawing board...
...preparing the cartoons for the Taqshir Tiles!

Intoxication

502c

I wonder if you [the Reader] wonder what stuff we smoke?!?
None: Just God.

502b

"In hearth of fire jump he doth: become-s a moth become-s a moth"
و اندر دل آتش درآ پروانه شو پروانه شو

502a

"Thou crazy be-e thou crazy be-e"
دیوانه شو دیوانه شو

501c

"From schemes now free from schemes now free"
(حیلت رها کن (عاشقا

501b

...While his assistant provides musical accompaniment.

501a

Happy with the solution of his key-dilemma, Mullah Frögüddin sings and dances...

Eὕρηκα (Found)!

Eureka!

500c

I will make Taqshir Tiles of that poem! The Vizir will love it.

500b

Oh Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! There is a poem where Rumi says: "Become a key" (مفتاح شو).

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Rumi's poems often end with an invitation to silence.

499c

In silence our mouth is shut. To speak, we open it. Would it be too odd if I shall sculpt a Tongue?!?

499b

Christians symbolize it with Saint Peter's keys: The Golden Key and the Silver One.

499a

The key to silence AND the key to speech.

Mullah Frögüddin Rambles On

498c

Then, when we pray, we ourselves become the Key.

498b

Oh Oh... And what about the Mirhab? It is a Keyhole.

498a

In Architecture we have the Keystone...

497c

Hmmm... There is also Dhikr (Remembrance of God) which is called by Sufis "The Key to Success" (Miftah al-Falah).

497b

Apologies.

497a

One should not receive negative feedback while one is on brainstorming.

Brainstorming

496c

I wish I had a key to shut my ears.

496b

And yet...what if gratitude is just another trick to lock us frogs into submission, like: "Eat your soup gratefully, because many are starving"?

496a Ramzan Mubarak!

A Shaykh that I knew said that "Gratitude is the key human quality of people toward God". It sounds right, but...how am I going to sculpt it? As a marble key word? RAMADAN MUBARAK!

495c

And I wonder: what is a key? What does it mean, figuratively speaking? What if the Opener of the hearts opens mine and forgets to close it? What is the opposite of "Ya Fattah"?

495b

The Vizir did not detail much..."Sculpt a big marble key!" That's all he said.

495a

Ahi, Nuvoletta (Little Cloud), my quiet friend! We must figure out how this key should look like!

Back to the Theatre

494c

...a skilled stonemason and his lovely assistant were working on a key...

494b

Once upon a time, in the great country of Frogkey...

494a

Sweet! I love happy endings!

493c

...which the Vizir of the Amir will soon come to exact!

493b

Where Mullah Frögüddin, the skilled stonemason, is sculpting a marble key...

493a

And so Philippe goes back to the Sufi Magic Theatre.

Perspectives

492c

492b

492a

491c

491b

491a

Clams and Keys

490c