In the Name of the Giver of life, the Giver of love, the Giver of
death and the Giver of loss
Shatranj Irfani
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/s****s_ladders.html
The ancient Shatranj Irfani has been the inspiration behind the
popular s****s and ladders game. Please download the image of the
board and print on regular size paper and play the game, like the
popular s****s and ladder game, while you can look up the words in the
provided lexicon to understand the Sufi terminologies.
This particular board for Sufi Muslim S****s and Ladders Game is found
in the collection of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, similar boards are
found, in London and Cambridge collections. We took the Maqams
(squares) from early 19th-century Sufi Muslim board, original texts
was in Persian and translated from Persian to English.
The antidotes for the s**** bites provided by referring to the seminal
work of Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Sullami’ The Defects of Nafs.
--DARA The Eyeless Lion
