Dr Arifa Haleem

I had just completed this book based on the true events which revolve around three main characters Rumi also known as Maulana Rome from Anatolia , A girl named Kimya came from a village and a wildman Shams of Tabriz. This book made a proper plot to tell the story of the spiritual relationship between Rumi and Shams how much they used to study together. They have same sort of interest to study the oneness of ALLAH and have a deep look over it. Most of the time shams came from Tabriz to Maulana's residence to study together but due this many times Maulana's wife disturbed and and his kids too. A girl from a village had a great spiritual attraction with the Rumi. She asked her non-muslim parents about it . They became very upset just because of it because Kimya wants to go to met and being a student of Maulana. But she shows her stubbornness and moved towards Anatolia. There she met Maulana's wife and two of her brother boys Maulana adopted her and she started living there. She used to saw Maulana and Shams study together many a times. She had great spiritual time there. When she grow young Maulana asked Kimya to marry Shams because he wants eternal relationship with Shams. Kimya agreed and they got married. But, unfortunately she didn't find peace in that marriage. As, he never gave specified time to his wife which made her mentally disturbed. She usually used to wait for his husband to come and have intimate relationship but all in vain. Shams wants her to have a spiritual awakening instead of this worldly relationship however both of them have its own importance. At last, Kimya lost herself and became downfall day by day . She may or may not noticed her. She died of this unhealthy marriage. It was rumoured that after Kimya's death Shams moved towards Tabriz where he may died on the way to Tabriz or being killed by Alau din , Maulana's son. However Rumi became famous and did his work and remained spiritual as he was . He became a famous poet. A highly recommend written by Muriel Maufroy which should be studied by all.

A Review on this book As the name indicates it might be a story of someone who is completely silent. This is some sort of thriller story which covers some other aspects as well.The psychotherapy,suspense,silence,culprits. The main focus of the story is Alicia Berenson which is a famous painter who shots her husband Gabriel Berenson 5 times.And after that she became silent for lifetime. Everyone was in shock why did she kill her husband although both of them had a happy married life and they love each other. After killing her husband she won’t be able to speak even a single word.So she is admitted to hospital and a lot of psychotherapist come and go but no one made her spoke. Theo Fabre, a psychotherapist came to the grove and show his interest to deal with Alicia because he thought her story is somehow related to his past.So he got permission and started treating Alicia. From Alicia’s diary he came to know about her past.He gave permission to Alicia to paint as he thought through her painting he would be able to make her speak. Besides this he was continuously following her wife and his boyfriend and he came to know that Kathy’s boyfriend is also a married man and cheating his wife so he started chasing her just to let her know about her husband so he got a chance. Theo leaves Gabriel and Alicia by tiring then on the chairs and after that Alicia kills him. The question here arises why did Alicia kills her husband? So the answer is because he came to know that he is cheating her, playing with her feelings. At the end of the story writer make an astounding twist when he came to know that Alicia and Theo were known to each other before they both are victims of being cheated by their partners. So when Alicia started talking he(Theo) gave her a high dose of morphine and put her in a coma and blame Christian for being in charge of that specific section. But unfortunately during investigation the police inspector got her diary from back of the painting of Alicia that Theo hates and now there was no chance to escape and finally the real culprit THEO FABER got arrested. #thesilentpatient #thriller #thrillerbooks #suspense #aliciaberenson #morphine #drarifahaleem

THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE by 'Elif Shafak' First and foremost thing is that don't judge book by it's cover.On a very short note,the way something and someone appears is not a true reflection of what's inside. The story actually revolves around 'LOVE' . The 40 rules we can follow to be in a journey of love. It can be of spiritual or material,divine or mundane,eastern or Western. 'Life without love is of no account.' (Shams of Tabriz) All we need in our life is to be completely satisfied by means of heart in anyway. So in this book their is a story of love chemistry between RUMI and SHAMS OF TABRIZ for the sake of ALLAH on the other hand their is a story of love chemistry between ELLA( A mother of three kids) and AZIZ (writer of sweet blasphemy). Both the situations are counterparts of eachother but the distinguishing feature is the condition of LOVE .Ishq e haqiqi as well as Ishq e Majazi. A man can live without everything but can't grow without love.And when a man founds true love then the phases of transformation starts. The feeling of being loved changed a person completely. One become a Sufi,mystic in the love of Lord, one become a poet in the love of human. The story somehow tells how can a person become a Sufi or what are the stages to become a mystical. I strongly recommend this book to all. It is really a masterpiece. JAZAKALLAH