The Forty Rules of Love is an exceptional and meritorious novel that is authored by Elif Shafak. It is a tale of love that is dedicated to the readers.
It catches the interest of its readers when they hold it never put it down until the book finishes. The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories that mirror each other across two very different cultures and seven interviewing centuries.
Forty year old Ella Rubenstien is an ordinary unhappy house wife with three children and with a faithful husband but her life begins to change when she takes a job as a reader for literary agency. Her first assignment is a navel intriguingly titled sweet Blasphemy. About the thirteenth-century poet Rumi and his beloved Sufi teacher Shams of Tabriz. The author is an unknown first tim novelist. Aziz Zahara, who lives in Turkey, initially reluctant to in essence, both Rumi and Ella through their relationship with Shams and Aziz are forced to question and then abandon the apparent safety and security of their lives.
However, neither Shams nor Aziz offer anything life happiness, what they can offer is taste of mystical union divine love, the deep harmony. Shams imparts the forty rules of love essential Sufi wisdom and Shams both preaches and embodies. He repeatedly defies social and religious conventions, Rumi to become the poet he means to be one of the world’s most profound voices of wisdom, Aziz and his Story of Rumi and Shams inspires Ella to step out of a mirage that has become emotionally and spiritually stifling for her.
Take on a book about a time and place so different from her own. Ella soon finds herself captivated both by the novel and the man who wrote it. At the center of the novel that Ella is reading is the nemarkable wondering whirling dervish Shams of Tabriz, a mystic provocateur who challenges conventional wisdom and social and religious prejudice wherever he encounters it, he is searching for the spiritual companion he is destined to teach. His soul purpose is to transform his student Rumi a great poets of voice of love.
Rumi is a willing student, but his family and community resent Shams deeply for upsetting their settled way of life. This provoking subject brings interest to its readers. I was satisfied with a beautiful message of this book in which the importance of love is extremely encouraging. Hope everyone reads it make themselves satisfied with the tale of this novel.
