Shehzad Peeral

The Forty Rules of Love The forty rules of love, written by Elif Shafak a resident of France who has authored 23 books. This book, through out 354 pages, explains how shams transformed a scholar into a Sufi (mystic) with the force of love plus details that how does an arrange married housewife suffer in a family. In this book, there are two novels; one discusses a housewife in an unpleasant family named Ella while the other known as 'Sweet Blasphemy'. Ella and Shams of Tabriz are known as the main characters of the following novel. Ms, Ella who always fights with her husband due to the fact that he stays out late and never spares time for her. To understand love, Ella goes for reading this novel and she gathers numerous of knowledge about love. For further information, she reaches out the author of novel, Aziz Zahra. She sends e-mails to Aziz for more information and through the very process there emerges a loving environment among both of them. After their meeting, Ella asks Aziz to take her with him and she never things back for the family she left behind. To Ella's luck, Aziz dies and she remains alone but never dares to have steps back to the previous family. Moreover, Shams of Tabriz, a religious person, is hate by many people because of his supporting fact. He goes to konya and finds a monk who is a great scholar named Rumi. However, Rumi gets much knowledge from Shams of Tabriz and he loves him more than his children. Rumi has a son, Aladain. He doesn't like Shams of Tabriz because he is a sufi. But Rumi loves Shams and without him he finds himself useless. Whatever Shams says, Rumi follows it. But unfortunately, Aladein kills Shams of Tabriz, in result; Rumi becomes crazy and breaks inside totally. This book talks about love , friendship and personal choice in life. After reading this book, you can understand true love which is within but one can never show it. Finally, I would recommend this book to you all.