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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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