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Part 3, Chapter 26
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Forty Rules of Love, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Love and Spirituality
Connections Across Distance and Time
Appearances vs. Reality
Storytelling and Truth
Summary
Analysis
Ella. Northampton, June 19, 2008. Aziz thanks Ella for her positive feedback again and continues his story in a new email. He spent the summer of 1977 with Sufis in Morocco. Master Sameed was happy to host Aziz in the dervish lodge, but on one condition: no drugs. He identified right away that Aziz had “the eyes of an addict.” Aziz was ashamed to be caught once in the act of almost doing drugs, but he eventually learned to make peace with the Sufis. He settled into the lodge’s collective lifestyle.
Aziz tries to live a double life of pretending to be spiritual while still caught up in addiction, but Master Sameed is able to see through Aziz’s ruse. Although Aziz is ashamed to be caught as a hypocrite, the lodge offers him a sense of belonging that helps counteract the loneliness he feels after his wife’s death.
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The more Aziz read about Sufism in his free time, the more intrigued he became. He was particularly intrigued by Master Sameed’s stories about Shams. For the first time in his life, Aziz no longer feels like he’s in a rush.
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