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/snakes_ladders.html The ancient Shatranj Irfani has been the inspiration behind the popular snakes and ladders game. Please download the image of the board and print on regular size paper and play the game, like the popular snakes 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 Snakes 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 snake bites provided by referring to the seminal work of Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Sullami' The Defects of Nafs. --DARA The Eyeless Lion
