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March 23, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sufi Comics: The secret recipe for curing all sins

This comic is adapted from The Garden of Self healing translated by Sheikh Fadhlalla Haeri. The eloquence is amazing, which gave inspiration to express the incident in Comic form. Did you like this comic? Copy…

March 19, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sufi Comics: Secrets of Prayer

This is an excerpt from the Book Lantern of the Path by Imam Jaffer Sadiq (as). The whole book contains several gems for every aspect of life, and worth referring to several times. Did you…

March 19, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sketch: Burning the midnight oil

A recent addition to the Art Gallery. This was not done with anything particular in mind. Here’s a Digital painting of the same sketch:

March 14, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sufi Comics: Freewill or Pre-destination

The classic question whether our actions are governed between Freewill or Pre-destination has been asked by all schools of thought. The correct answer according to Islamic thought is that it’s somewhere in between. We don’t…

March 9, 2009 by Arif Vakil

Naked Economics- a Book Review & a Great Election TV ad

Ever since the beginning of the Economic Crises, I’ve been gobbling up every editorial, analysis, documentary and book on it, trying to understand in as plain words as possible what exactly is going on.  It’s…

March 7, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sufi Comics: A Prayer taught by Imam Ali

This prayer summarizes  in essense the intention of a Sufi’s approach to supplication.   It’s a higher state one strives to acheive where one yearns for God not for any ulterior motive, but because God is…

March 5, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sufi Comics: Can I see God?

This question was asked to the 6th Imam (Imam Jafar As-Sadiq).  His face is not shown in Islamic Art.  I heard this anecdote a long time ago during my School days when I attended Summer…

March 5, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

Sufi Comics: Abu Dharr’s Piety

I heard this anecdote from a series of Lectures called Art of Yearning for God by Sheikh Khalil Jaffer.  I recall there were several other anecdotes similar to this mentioned in these lectures.  The comic…

February 28, 2009 by Mohammed Ali Vakil

View the Art Gallery: Doodles, Cartoons, Sketches, Caricatures & more

I enjoy sketching & doodling.  So I thought of adding them to the Blog.  An Art Gallery page has been created that showcase the Art work.  You can also view them below:

February 24, 2009 by Arif Vakil

I Love these 3 Stories from Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Madman, His Parables and Poems’.

When my Sorrow was born When my sorrow was born I nursed it with care, and watched over it with loving tenderness. And my Sorrow grew like all living things, strong and beautiful and full…

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