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A review by misshashmeme
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
5.0
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
I’ve been seeing this book on shelves in every bookstore I’ve been to in the last couple of years. However, I never felt like I had to read it. Until my mother finally bought it a month ago. I started reading it, not knowing what to expect. I can assure you that I regret not reading it earlier.
This novel is about an American housewife, Ella, who has everything she could possibly need to meet the conventional needs of “happiness”. However, is she truly content ?
Twenty years into her marriage and forty years into her life, Ella gets work with a literary agent who gives her a manuscript, Sweet Blasphemy, to read and write a report on. What Ella doesn’t know is that this manuscript is going to change her life forever.
Sweet Blasphemy is about the close friendship of 13th-century poet Rumi, and the dervish Shams of Tabrizi. It explores the basic rules of Islam and the lifestyle of a Muslim. While it’s main focus is on Sufism, it includes everything that could lead you to live a much happier life with a lot less to worry about. It reminds us that the trivial matters in this world do not matter, and that there are always some things that are so much more important.
The Forty Rules of Love is a subtle (and sometimes a not-so-subtle) reminder that every human being is just that - a human being. We know where we came from, and we know where we’re going to end up. It would do us all some good if we remember that.
I’ve been seeing this book on shelves in every bookstore I’ve been to in the last couple of years. However, I never felt like I had to read it. Until my mother finally bought it a month ago. I started reading it, not knowing what to expect. I can assure you that I regret not reading it earlier.
This novel is about an American housewife, Ella, who has everything she could possibly need to meet the conventional needs of “happiness”. However, is she truly content ?
Twenty years into her marriage and forty years into her life, Ella gets work with a literary agent who gives her a manuscript, Sweet Blasphemy, to read and write a report on. What Ella doesn’t know is that this manuscript is going to change her life forever.
Sweet Blasphemy is about the close friendship of 13th-century poet Rumi, and the dervish Shams of Tabrizi. It explores the basic rules of Islam and the lifestyle of a Muslim. While it’s main focus is on Sufism, it includes everything that could lead you to live a much happier life with a lot less to worry about. It reminds us that the trivial matters in this world do not matter, and that there are always some things that are so much more important.
The Forty Rules of Love is a subtle (and sometimes a not-so-subtle) reminder that every human being is just that - a human being. We know where we came from, and we know where we’re going to end up. It would do us all some good if we remember that.