Can love survive without open honesty, focus on what one does have and unconditional support of the other in the very moments which are testing enough? there was a obvious lack of communication between them at certain times which made complete sense (they’re a fairly new couple who were both dealing with their own issues and didn’t want to burden each other). in book 2, we have zaynab and adam's established relationship with each their own trials from Al-Rahim (God).

K. Ali does so much more right in terms of portraying characters whose lives are built upon solid foundations of their Islamic faith, which they believe in and live fully and for themselves, not as an unwanted cultural inheritance or a meaningless identity marker. On the other hand, Zayneb is living in Chicago, studying law, and dealing with outrageous accusations regarding the funds.For one, the conflict is almost entirely based on a miscommunication trope, which is the trope I dislike the most. I just wanted to look at the same sky as Zayneb for more than a vacation, a break, a pause in our lives. The characters are so real and flawed and the spiritual journey they go on to discover themselves and their paths as separate people within their relationship was so incredible. While reading, I keep getting the feeling that this book is not written for Muslim audiences only but rather for non-muslims.

They forget how the Prophet always talked about how a husband should treat his wife right and with love. I also liked he glimpses into the characters' backstories, which added more depth to their personalities both in this book and LFATZ. K. Ali makes very clear from the start, this story is one to challenge all those romantic tales that end with the wedding; she wants to show us – in all its messy ups and downs – what comes next! mild spoilers – to avoid, skip to *] I deeply felt the heartbreak of the moment when they have completed Umrah and Zayneb suddenly realises that she didn’t make any personal du’as because she was worrying too much about Adam! Zayneb who was my age, Zayneb who looks and dresses like I do, Zayneb who gets a love story in an industry where someone like her is so rare.

She pulled the laptop from the coffee table onto the couch she was lying on, stomach down, and began two-finger-typing the introduction for her social studies project. There are many, MANY couples who spend a part of their honeymoon performing Umrah (my parents for example). I was quite surprised by my greater empathy with Zayneb since I definitely felt more in tune with Adam than Zayneb in Love from A to Z.

For years ever since I was eight until I was twenty-one, I used to attend the Islamic version of a Sunday school where I memorized twenty juz’a of the Quran and listened to lectures about Islam. And when it's getting too unbearably intense, SK Ali decided to threw some light jokes to the narrative. For Thanksgiving that year they already planned to have a little getaway, quality time just for the two of them in London. Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia.

Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.