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Freed from wine and cup!!!
از بادہ و جام آزادم

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Drunk am I through You!!!
مستِ تو ام

Watercolor 1 (Art Club 8)

This is a 10x10 cm (4x4 inches) watercolour of the Universel Murad Hassil, a Sufi Temple in Katwijk-aan-Zee, the Netherlands.

Folk Tales! 671-B/W

Do you have pencils? Please, colour the Froggies!

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Yet, for every frog there is a prince!

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And hungry wolves hiding in the woods...

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Gingerbread houses, flying carpets, magic lamps...

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Fairy tales are full of enchantment...

Cartoon Club 1 (Art Club 7)

Sketches of Hands and Horses from old *How to...* American books. Highly recommended for lifting up one's spirit! :-) If you want just one, try this.

Choices 670-B/W

Don't you think this Strip needs some colours?

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I opt for fairy tales!

670-c

Whatever helps the soul to remember its home, is good...

670-b

Devotion to a holy man or place...

670-a

Music: yes! Or art, or poetry...

Sketch from a Photo (Art Club 6)

Himmat (همت) / Desire 669-B/W

Don't you think this Strip needs some colours?
The word "Himmat" appears in five verses in the Koran. To translate in Christian terms what Himmat is, read Matthew 13:45-46.

669-d

What turns me on is Jazz!

669-c

Yet above sobriety and inebriety I am...
Click here to the Persian lines of Sheikh Ghouri and Prince Sanjar's story (from Attar's *The Conference of the Birds*).

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Drugs bloom and wither...

669-a

Prohibitions come and go...

Quick Sketches (Art Club 5)

Indian Hemp 668-B/W

In case anyone is tired of discussing about the prohibition of alcohol in Islam, click here to a new topic for ranting among friends (on Facebook and elsewhere) ;-).
Besides... don't you think this Strip needs some colours?

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Would the French truly mind Air France serving hemp on its flights?!?

668-c

Hee hee! Why should Qatar Airways not have an eye for business? Besides...

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Hmm... I think he is a joker mocking his secular French friends who call the Qatari hypocrites for serving wine...

668-a

This Saki (Barman) is either a joker or a literalist...

Study of Frogs (Art Club 4)

Qatar Rays 667-B/W

Cheers! Click here to the related article.
Don't you think this Strip needs some colours?

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After all, we are not Qatar Airways!!!

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Red or white: as you like! Sweet or dry: it is your choice!! But it will be alcohol-free anyway...

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A glass of Ayran I can place in your palm...

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Tucan Gridding (Art Club 3)

Gridding and scaling images by hand is still a useful tool for artists, even in times of computers. It is cheap, it is simple, and -by far more important- it gives satisfaction and a sense of mastery.

B/W-666 Azure / أزرق

Click HERE to the Persian of this poem.
Have fun!  Colour the Froggies.

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In my palm place the cup of wine so that from my breast I may pluck off this patched garment of blue colour!
Tr. by Henry Wilberforce Clarke (1840-1905)

666-c

Perhaps this one better is and for this place more aptly speaks...

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Wait! Here another distich is that about Sufism also speaks...

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Hee Hee! We are in a tavern under the sea and yet of fire Hafiz speaks...

Frog Painting (Art Club 2)

Ahl-e Del (People of the Heart) 665-B/W

Have fun!  Colour the Froggies.

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Dear to the Magians my heart is
for there a fire that never dies, is!

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But may be it is better if we turn to Hafiz...

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And what I think it is and what I thought it was...

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To be honest, I would like to discuss Sufism...

Zebra Sketching (Art Club 1)

What If...? 664-B/W

Have fun!  Colour the Froggies.

664-d

What if by "Sufi" I simply mean "Sufi"?

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By "Sufi" you mean an open-minded pious Muslim or a deviant Mulla with double-standard speech?

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Totally unclear if approving or blaming...

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Hee hee hee you said "Sufi" in a truly Sufi way...