The Prophet (1923) most known
book by Gibran, written in English and translated into more than fifty
languages, which is considered the greatest noval. It has social meditative and philosophical
content, which contains a summary of views of love, marriage, children, houses,
buying and selling, freedom and compassion and punishment, religion and morality,
life and death, pleasure and beauty, generosity and laws …, that have been
received on the tongue of a prophet named "Mustafa", mystic believer
pantheistic, who has a message that spirits thirst to return to their source,
and that love is the essence of life. In the book The Prophet Gibran expresses
his views in life through the treatment of human relationships that bind human
to human beings.
Mustafa pronounce poetry mixed
with wisdom dived in human depths to admire human beings and nature, love and
life. He pours light that enlighten the good in life, believing in human, goodness,
clarity and purity of evils. He whispered to the great self inherent in all human
beings, which remove the material pictures to meet a united peacekeeping in the
world of the sky.
Mustafa remained twelve years in Orphalese
awaiting his ship to come back to the island, where he was born. He climbed the
hill to see the ship coming. He flew of joy and clenched his eyes repeating
prayers, remembering parting the city, so he fell in deep sadness saying: “How
shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit
shall I leave this city. Long were the days of pain I have spent within its
walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain
and his aloneness without regret?”
While he was on his way past, both
men and women have left their fields and vineyards with haste towards the gates
of the city shouting in his name and asking him to stay, saying: “You have
walked amoung us a spirit and your shadow has been a light upon our faces. Much
have we loved you. But speechless was our love, and with veils has it been
veiled. Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and would stand revealed before you. And
ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
In the large square, in front of
the temple, people asked him to speak to them and reveals to them about the
mysteries and brief them including what he has of knowledge.
So they started wondering in
everything that excites them and take things from Mustafa telling them the
world of wisdom and knowledge.
He talked about the world of
love: where Love is not given but itself, and does not take but from itself. Love
does not have, nor owned by one, Love is Love.
And marriage he has told them: Love
each other and don’t make love a constraint, but make it a flowing sea between
the shores of your souls.
And for the Children: From you they
go out to life but they are not yours. You may give them love but not your
thoughts they have their ideas, and in your power to seek to be like them but
do not force them to be like you.
For tender he says: You give but
little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that
you truly give.
He spoke of many subjects and
left the city of Orphalese leaving its citizens with melancholy and eagerness.
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