Inward Tranquillity in the Divine Love: a Sufi study of Elif Shafak’s “ The Forty Rules of Love

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Humankind is abused by premonitions, segregations, squabbles and hurtful opinions considering the severe struggles, power fights and political conflicts all over the world.

Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Shafak, reveals the possibility that in this fierce world, in fact people can find fulfilment and satisfaction by fighting every one of the concerns in their everyday presence.

The novel creates a strange state of spiritual brilliance, psychological comfort, and worlds of goodness and beauty.

At the same time it raises questions about a different type of knowledge, which occurs through foresight, not sight, and sensation, not physical facts, through tales about different people.

This paper studies the concept of love which is the highest kind of relationship in existence.