Kahlil Gibran

"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?

I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."

— Kahlil Gibran

                                       

Why, has his seminal work, The Prophet :

struck such a chord with generations of readers ?

Since it was published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print.

The perennial classic has been translated into more than 50 languages and is a staple on international best-seller lists.

It is thought to have sold tens of millions of copies...

"It serves various occasions or big moments in one's life so it tends to be a book that is often gifted to a lover,

or for a birth, or death. That is why it has spread so widely, and by word of mouth,"


Dr Mohamed Salah Omri, lecturer in Modern Arabic literature at Oxford University.

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"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?

I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."

— Kahlil Gibran
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you turn a romantic now?

The Beatles, John F Kennedy and Indira Gandhi :

are among those who have been influenced by its words.... 

Reverend Laurie Sue, an interfaith minister in New York who has conducted hundreds of weddings

with readings from The Prophet :

It is not filled with any kind of dogma, it is available to anyone :

whether they are Jewish or Christian or Muslim." 

hindus out

The book is made up of 26 prose poems, delivered as sermons by a wise man called Al Mustapha :

He is about to set sail for his homeland after 12 years in exile on a fictional island

when the people of the island ask him to share his wisdom on the big questions of life :

love, family, work and death  !!!