The Forty Rules of Love

A novel within a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories that mirror each other across two very different cultures and seven intervening centuries.”It starts when a housewife, Ella, gets a book called Sweet Blasphemy for an appraisalThis book is about a thirteenth century poet, Rumi, and his spiritual teacher, Shams. The book presents Shams’s Forty Love Rules at different intervalsSweet Blasphemy was structured in a way to focus on the five elements of nature: Water, Air, Earth, Fire and Void. The chapters in each section revealed a story in line with the nature of each element.The story presented in the novel is based on “love and spirituality that explains what it means to follow your heart”.