REVIEW

Every dreamer, wanderer, and spirit will recognize themselves in Almustafa, the Prophet who looks upon a ship docked at Orphalese, where he is to depart after twelve years. Before he leaves, the habitants of the town catechize him on the stepping stones of life i.e., love, house, freedom, friendship, and the list goes on…

Almustafa answers each inquiry with what seems to be the orchestration of the divine — a sage’s tongue and the ether’s will. Gibran masterfully and poetically marries the essence of life with the forces of nature to fracture our programmed reasonings, dogmatism, and self-inflicted demons. Through each homily, he grants us permission to be human and brings familiarity to our darkness and woes by revealing them only to revel at our ambivalent coalescence. Where there is an infinite list of differences between every person, there is a list of endless similarities, every life blindly striding side-by-side in unison. We humans have this shortcoming: searching the mirror for answers only to discover every meeting gaze of another is a startling reflection. In revealing truth, he says, “It’s okay. We are everything, and we are everyone.” He opens the windows and dusts its sills so all who bare to witness can see what has been there all along.

Read chapters of The Prophet here:

1. The Coming of the Ship
2. On Love
3. On Marriage
4. On Children
5. On Giving
6. On Eating and Drinking
7. On Work
8. On Joy and Sorrow
9. On Houses
10. On Clothes
11. On Buying and Selling
12. On Crime and Punishment
13. On Laws
14. On Freedom
15. On Reason and Passion
16. On Pain
17. On Self-Knowledge
18. On Teaching
19. On Friendship
20. On Talking
21. On Time
22. On Good and Evil
23. On Prayer
24. On Pleasure
25. On Beauty
26. On Religion
27. On Death
28. The Farewell

★★★★★

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