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*One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'*
"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 . . ."
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love.
So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .
'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro
'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph
'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times
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She never confronted the death of anything, be it a habit, a phase, or a marriage, even when the end stood right in front of her, plain and inevitable.
EILF SHAFAK
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After a few drinks, I hear the same stories from them all.
Men are the same everywhere.
Same food, same water, same old crap.
THE INNKEEPER
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It was always like this.
When you spoke the truth, they hated you.
The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
SHAMS OF TABRIZ
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"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.”
ELIF SHAFAQ
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A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison
RUMI
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How do you see yourself?
How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.
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Learn to love God's creations.
It’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to 'love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects'. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God’s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.
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The Mystic
When I was a child, I saw God, I saw angels; I watched the mysteries of the higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.…
—SHAMS OF TABRIZ
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Finding God
You can find God in everything and in everybody because his existence is not defined in a mosque or a temple or a church. But if you still need to know where to find him there is nowhere but the heart of a true lover.
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Love And Mind
Love and mind are of two different natures. Mind connects people with boundaries and there is no fear in that, love on the other hand, disolves all boundaries and involves great risk. The mind brakes your actions and asks you to be cautious, while love pushes you right throught the dangers of having real experiences no matter what. It's not easy for the mind to break down, love however crumbles itself easily, and how many treasures were found between the wreckage.
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Befuddled believer! If every Ramadan one fasts in the name of God and every Eid one sacrifices a sheep or a goat as an atonement for his sins,if all his life one strives to make the pilgrimage to Mecca and five times a day kneels on a prayer rug but at the same time has no room for love in his heart,what is the use of all this trouble? Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless,vague and hollow—not anything you could truly feel.
ELIF SHAFAK
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40 of the most important rules in life that have inspired me
Rule 1:
How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves.
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Rule 2:
To change the world, we must first change ourselves.
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Rule 3:
The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head.
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Book to read the change the way of our life.
The forty rules of love" is the most influential and life changing novel for me . This world is like a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you. Therefore, if there is someone who harbors ill thoughts about you, saying similarly bad things about him will only make matters worse. You will be locked in a vicious circle of malevolent energy. Instead for forty days and nights say and think nice things about that person. Everything will be different at the end of forty days, because you will be different inside.”
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Daily Inspiration
This world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated. Fear not the plots, deceptions, or tricks of other people. If somebody is setting a trap, remember, so is God. He is the biggest plotter. Not even a leaf stirs outside God's knowledge. Simply and fully believe in that. Whatever God does, He does beautifully."
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak
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What You Want Is Important Than Others.
In life, there are lows and highs which makes think about decisions we made so far. And sometimes we think about possibilities which were just a decision away from us, and the different scenarios about that situations makes us doubt our decisions. So in order to be satisfied with the decisions of life, always go wth love.
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God
You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue, or church.
But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His adobe is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.
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