## Metadata - Author: [[Elif Shafak]] - Full Title: The Forty Rules of Love - Category: #books ## Highlights - Instead of an outer-oriented jihad—defined as “the war against infidels” and carried out by many in those days just as in the present—Rumi stood up for an inner-oriented jihad where the aim was to struggle against and ultimately prevail over one’s ego, nafs. ([Location 329](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0030CVPO0&location=329))