A SPLIT SOUL SAGA.
One Soul, Two Bodies
**"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."**
-Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī
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PREFACE
BOOK 1: ALCHEMY OF LOVE.
This is a story about the invisible ties that bind us.
Whether you call it fate, soulmates, or unexplained connection, we've all felt a pull toward someone we can't explain.
Jamal prays. Not for miracles, but because it's who he is. Since childhood, his quiet devotion opened doors he never knew existed.
Aamina dreams.
Vividly. Restlessly.
Of a man she's never met, standing by a river she's never seen. She calls it stress. Her grandmother calls it madness.
They live worlds apart.
He's older with untold burdens.
She's healing from heartbreak.
**They are strangers.**
Until Jamal's spiritual practice tears a crack in the ordinary, and their souls collide somewhere beyond sight, beyond touch.
A wise man calls it "memory. Soul recognition."
But he warns:
"When we give ourselves lightly, through hollow loves, through intimacy without meaning, we scatter pieces of our soul. We tie ourselves to ghosts. And the thread meant for one... frays."
Aamina fights it;
After betrayal, after pain, she trusts nothing, least of all a dream.
For Jamal, his world is shaken;
He's known hollow unions too. Secret shame that haunts him.
**Then, Zawiyya calls.**
A town shrouded in whispers. A place where fate gathers the lost.
Here, in ancient dust and echoing alleyways, they'll stumble into each other's gaze.
No magic. No angels. Just a moment that changes everything.
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**WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THESE PAGES**
This isn't just a spiritual journey. It's a human one. You'll walk with characters who:
- Doubt; (Is this real, or am I broken?)
- Hurt; (Why do I keep choosing wrong?)
- Resist; (Love failed me before, never again)
- Risk; (What if this time… it's different?)
**For the realist:
Feel the ache of Aamina's migraines as she battles past trauma.
Smell the coal fires of Marhaba.
Feel the emotional burden Jamal is carrying, tied to his past Karma.
**For the dreamer:
- Sense the pull of something deeper than logic.
- Question if distances, in miles or years, matter at all.
- Wonder: Could my life change in one encounter?
**For the wounded:
- See how betrayal twists trust.
- Feel the weight of bad choices.
- Discover how we unknowingly block our own healing.
**And the warning woven through:
Every time we use intimacy as a bandage, not a covenant...
- we chain ourselves to echoes.
- We steal from the love meant for us.
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THE MEETING AT ZAWIYYA.
You won't understand this town at first.
Neither do they.
It's not a place of spells or saints.
Not a battlefield of angels and devils.
It's a crossroads.
A mirror.
A catalyst.
Here, Jamal and Aamina won't find easy answers.
They'll find:
A silence that screams louder than words.
A truth they've spent years avoiding.
A choice: run… or finally face what their souls already know.
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This story is for you if:
You've ever loved the wrong person.
You've ever loved someone and it feels beyond ordinary.
You've felt a connection that defied logic.
You've wondered, "Is there more than this?"
You've carried shame from past choices.
You've hoped against all reason, for a love that feels like home.
This is not a book about saints.
It's a book about souls,
Flawed. Searching. And fiercely human.
If you're looking for perfect people, this isn't that kind of story.
If you're looking to be entertained without being moved, turn back.
But if you're ready to unfold, to question, to remember,
Then step in.
With open hands.
And an open heart.
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A Word of Intention:
This book is not here to attack anyone's belief,
Nor to change what you hold sacred.
It's not a weapon.
It's not a doctrine.
It's a mirror, held up gently.
This is a story for those brave enough to see themselves.
To unlearn what was survival…
To learn what might be truth.
A journey of heartbreak, healing,
And the whispers of the soul beneath the noise.
A work of fiction.
A vessel of truth.
And for some... maybe even a home.
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Welcome to Split Soul.
Where the greatest journey isn't across oceans…
It's into the truth we buried within.
Welcome to A love story written in the unseen.
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Written for the brave. Read by the broken. Remembered by the soul.
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Cover Art by Precious Okike.