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 book is copy n° 680 of the printed edition of a manuscript of the Babur Nama, illustrated with outstanding miniatures at the end of the 16th century. This copy was printed in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) in 1969, from slides of the original miniatures, slides provided by the British Museum (at the time the Keeper of the miniatures, which are now in the British Library, item Or. 3714). The book was bought by me [the cartoonist] in an antique shop in Kabul (Afghanistan) in 1975. It was much later that I found out about the original manuscript, which I thought was in Uzbekistan, while it was, instead, in the United Kingdom, kept 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)

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

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