237. Postcard # 7: La Jolla Riford Public Library

Sob, this is a bit out of focus...apologies, we'll fix it at home. But Frogs are really enjoying California. Who knows why, but to be a Sufi Cartoon is so much frogulious here. Cartoons are Real, in California!

236. Postcard # 6: San Diego Comic Con

Frog on the title to SWB # 28715 and to the Triumph Of Sacredness.

235. Postcard # 5: A Froggy Dhikr

It was a beautiful Sufis Without Borders Dhikr. The Best Sufi stars attended. As for those who could not make it...Inshallah, the next time. Froggy Love from California, USA.

234. Postcard # 4: San Diego Zoo

Click on the title to the San Diego Zoo

233. Postcard # 3: La Jolla, CA

232. Postcard # 2: PHL

231. Postcard # 1: MXP

Posting Froggy Postcards

Salam, Dear Friends of the Sufi Frogs! Mim, Nanan and Phil will frog with the Cartoonist on a sort of pilgrimage to California until the 4th of August. They will post some froggy postcards of their trip, as they do not want to discontinue the strip but their studio facilities will be very limited. It will be a sort of a much more spontaneous art, which could perhaps be termed as a Shaduli approach, and a break from their usual Naqshbandi carefully planned style. When back at home the postcards will be scanned and reposted for a better viewing, since while traveling they will post them through their cell phone, a smart froggy trick they learned from a prominent cartoonist they hope to meet at the Comic Con.

230. Packing-thread / بندور

Frog the title to the 23'961th Theophanic Wave. Frog to XXV:70.

229. Wordplays 3: Shame ( vergogna / الحشمة )

Frog the title to a very big fish found in the SWB shipway # 14633 at the frogs' pond. For a portion of it, frog here.

228. Wordplays 2: Sin ( peccato / الذنب )

Frog the title to pre-fana and post-fana existence ( SWB # 52865 ). Frog here and here to the One Who is unseen and within.

227. Wordplays 1: Fear ( paura / الخوف )

Frog the title to the Divine Broadcast ( SWB # 43201 ) , then here ( SWB # 43206 ) to how to dress for God's Costume Party. Frog here and here to the One to Whom we (sometimes) listen.

Wordplays!

Frogs are playing with words. Or Words are playing with frogs? Whatever the case might be, feel free to join in and have fun!

226. DSL 3 Nanan / ن

Frog the title to Cirano by Francesco Guccini, a transformative love song. To a Wiki article about the play Cyrano de Bergergerac, frog here. The Persian poem running along Nanan's fishing rod is ghazal # 2945 from Rumi, at SWB # 47312.

225. DSL 2 Mim / م

Frog the title to Margherita by Riccardo Cocciante, a sweet love song. Frog here to the lyrics.

224. DSL 1 Philippe / پ

Frog the title to Anna by Lucio Battisti, an Italian love song.

Desert Sufi Love

The Prayerie Dog's Poem came to an end, but in the meantime the preyerie frogs fell in love with the prayerie dog. May be because he is so turquoise, may be because he is a digger, may be because he knows the inner meaning of prayers...

Or may be are these frogs just liyng drunk in the Tavern, dreaming of Painted Deserts and Chocolatte Mountains that do not actually exist?

Who knows...but when it comes to Love, it is enough to imagine It, and Love becomes Real. Isn't the heartache real? Isn't the longing real?

The preyerie frogs, having tasted Love, slowly forget their preying, for all they wish is to pray again. So they invent froggionate, frogthetic, froggyful ways of calling the Prayerie Dog out of his many burrows.

Love is One, and while each sufi frog has a unique way to express it, all that they truly desire is the same: to be guided back to the Prayerie again.

223. Rattlesnake Jihad / جهاد الأفعى الجرسية

Frog the title to (SWB # 15570) the lesser and the greater striving (Jihad). Should you doubt that frogs can feast on snakes, frog here.

222. Being / Zωον / الكائن

Frog the title and go straightfrogward into the cages of the Islamic Zoo.

221. Bathed / استحمّ

Frog the title to # 48471 and how to receive God's Unconditional Bathing.

220. The Salat Times / لصلاة الأوقات

Frog the title to the Prayerie Dog's Poem. Frog here to an inspiring book about the Sufi prayers. Frog here to the Namaz Vakti.

219. Tide / منجذر

Frog the title to small waves and rip-tides (# 47864).

218. Rattlesnakes / الأفاعي الجرسية

Frog the title to the Rattlesnakes, so beautiful and misunderstood. Frog here to a sculpture of Socrate morente (Dying Socrates). The sculpture is in this Park in Switzerland.

217. August / Agosto / أغسطس

Frog the title to # 10316 and another way of praying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

212. Lapfrog / Lappatina / قفز الضفادع

Frog on the title to # 39322 and leap from proliferation to synthesis. Frog the Arab Asterism.

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...

210. Words / Parole / الكلمات

Frog on the title to # 43673 and playing around with words in almost Kabbalistic fashion.

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.

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.).

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".

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

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

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.

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!

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).

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.

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.

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

198. Consciousness / وجدان

Frog on the title to SWB # 1074 for consciousness and remembrance.

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.

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!

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.

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 .

193. What / چه / Cosa

Frog on the title to an ayah of strength from Surat al-Hadid (SWB # 25493).

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Frogs frog the Arabic from http://tinyurl.com/djwgo4. Related links: http://www.ipocan.it/; http://tinyurl.com/cbdmzw; http://tinyurl.com/crlrg5. Allah Santé!