![]() ![]() I don't recall anything about Shams taking an oath of celibacy. He steadfastly refuses to sleep with her throughout their marriage, even when she tries all the tricks in the book to seduce him. ![]() She offered herself to me the way a rosebud opens to the rain. All I wanted was to enter her and get lost inside her. Stretching out beside her, I inhaled her smell and touched her breasts, so small and firm. The warmth of her lips sent waves of desire across my entire body. The wedding night is described from Shams's point of view, and he feels desire for her too, but he refuses to sleep with her as her husband: ![]() She's very much in love with him, as we see from the chapters written from her point of view. Towards the end of Elif Şafak's The Forty Rules of Love, specifically the book-within-a-book Sweet Blasphemy which is largely a retelling of the real-life story of Shams and Rumi, Shams gets married to Rumi's student and foster-daughter Kimya. ![]()
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