Love from Mecca to Medina

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Although I understand this social interaction is a normal reality for many Muslims and I wasn’t too bothered by it as an adult reader who knows her own beliefs and limits, when I consider it from the perspective of a book targeted at potentially impressionable young Muslim women, it does raise some alarm bells for me. Her midriff just hanging around for Adam’s view was one thing, but she wasn’t too sure about Hanna seeing it. You and your special one will be enveloped in a canopied, curtained, four-poster bed fit for royalty, with an en suite bathroom similarly tastefully decorated. Alas, no—all it did was make her want to run to get a magnifying glass to see if any of the Arabic words on the souvenir were the actual ones from the actual Kaaba in Mecca.

When Thanksgiving break happens, they are thrown into going to umrah when Adam, worried about how his MS will affect his ability to go to Makkah in the future, elects to take advantage of an opportunity.And I love all the cameos too, which didn't feel like random inserts but actually helped the characters grow!

Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation and making her miserable.But the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adam’s ex in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb everywhere they go. Ali's voice feels altered, as if it's not written so much for the Muslim Audience but written with someone else in mind. The journey in Mecca and Medina were captured perfectly, I could almost feel the breeze on my face and sniff Masjidil Haram's heavenly scent on my nose. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. For me, this book is not a perfect book , but, its a book that I would proudly share with my nieces and nephews .

There are many, MANY couples who spend a part of their honeymoon performing Umrah (my parents for example). There was also a lot of pettiness and and insecurities that I feel were conflict-driven more than character-driven--issues that were put there for the sake of the conflict, not something that made complete sense to the characters. it's a truly beautiful novel, with descriptions so apt and rich that it really felt like i was very much in saudi arabia with them. Even the author's note freaked me out😂 Anyways, even this aspect was understandable because they were newly married and one expects pretty unrealistic things from their partners. I had loved the explanations of the Prophet and the explanations of Mecca and Kaaba, makes me want to go there right this instant as I was reading the book.

On the trip of a lifetime, Adam and Zayneb must find their way back to each other in this surprising and romantic sequel to the “bighearted, wildly charming” (Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author) Love from A to Z . So if Adam and Zayneb do more than hold hands in Mecca and Medina, then it’s very much fine and very much halal and very much okay. We do want butterflies in our lives, but SK Ali had shown that Marriage is A Responsibility and its not only butterflies and rainbows.