Shams Forty rules of Love| QUOTES

A book forty rules of Love by Elif shafaq.

Some of the beautiful and my most favorite points from this book are;

1. Patience means to look at the thorn and see rose. 

Explanation: Means if you are suffering from any problem or encounter with challenging situation just believe that your sufferings will payback. Trust in end results.

2. Be Hopeful. What ever happens in your life no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair.

Explanation: Again what ever problems come in your life face them with enthusiasm and patience. If hardships are making you fell down, stand up again, retaliate but never lose hope. Hopelessness is a sin.

3. True mentors are as transparent as glass. They let the light of God pass through you.

Explanation:You will encounter a lot of advisors on your life journey, but only a few, or perhaps only one person, will be there to help you through every thick and thin. True mentors are a blessings of God. They will help out you to find your inner self.  They will act as a  mirror for you. A mirror which will show you your self worth.

4. If you are so desperate to win the approval of others you will never get rid of their criticism, no matter how hard you tried.

Explanation: Simple you can never make the people happy. So don't waste your energy to make them happy. 

5. Life is sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light old ones need to wither away.

Explanation: Always be open to new things. Embrace the change. A child go through the process of assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation means absorb or adjust the new information in existing information e.g All birds have wings so they can fly. Now child came to know that sparrow has wing so it can fly. It's assimilation) and accomodations (modifying the information means existing information was all birds have wings and they can fly. New information is hen is a bird but it can't fly. Now child will change and new information)  

Like a child we also need to assimilate and modify our thinking. Life is full of new and astonishing experiences, it will never stop you you teaching so you should never stop Learning. 

6. Its easy to love a perfect God what is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects. One can only know what on is capable of loving. There is no wisdom with out love. Unless we learn to love God's creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.

Explanation: love or interest to know something in detail lead to curiosity, which hence is the way to gain knowledge. If we want to know God we have to know about the God's creation, we have to love the God's creation.

In short the most difficult thing is to Love imperfect things perfectly so let's do that to make our creator happy which is the only way.