Of course I remember almost nothing of this book, except that it was an arduous journey through the elementary and unspecific explanation of religious doctrine that tries to be open and liberal, but is actually very conservative and full of ideology that I feel is unrewarding mostly due to the difficulty in actual application. If anyone reads this, although I see no reason why they would, listen to my words. The truth, however you define it, however you need it, is simple. When you see it you kn More...

أعتقد أنها ستكون أروع شئ قرأته وسأقرأه عن الأنسانية والحب والعطاء والحكمة
كتاب رائع يستحق الاقتناء وقرائته أكثر من مرة
أبدع ثروت أباظه في ترجمته ويكأنه علي لسان عربي وليس بمترجم

أشد المقطوعات أثارت أعجابي
في المأكل والمشرب
وحين تنحر ذبيحتك ناجها في سريرتك قائلا:"إن الفدرة التي تذبحك هي نفسها... تذبحني؛وأنا مثلك مصيري الفناء.
فإن الناموس الذي أسلمك إلى يدي سوف يسلمني إلى يد أشد بأسا.
وحين تقضم التفاحة بين اسنانك،ناجها قائلا:"لسوف تحيا بذورك في جسدي، وتزهر براعم غدك في قلبي، ويصبح عبيرك أنفاسي؛ومعا ن More...

The Prophet made me feel profoundly spiritual when I was nineteen. It was a great way to experience spirituality and romance as a teenager, but as I got older, its lusty descriptions of the true meaning of love, marriage, and life just seem like pretty, but shallow, wordplay.

Now, don't write to me and prove me wrong on this, because I like the idea very much. I believe that Khalil Gibran was quite the player. The Prophet has a seductive tone that avoids making any concrete statements, which is t More...

I think people are making this out to be something it's not. It's bombastic nonsense.

I'm not sure that this book lived up to the thousands of recomendations that I got to read it. It is very beautiful, many of the lines are great, but as a whole, it seems like a sort of ode to indecision. Maybe I didn't take enough time with it, but seemed to me to be so heavily focussed on balance and contradictions that it didn't make any extreme proclamations. Maybe balance is more real than that which is self-glorifying, but I just wasn't as moved as I wanted to be. Maybe at a different time More...

دي مش هتبقي أول و أخر مرة أقراه, الكتاب مليان جدا و أعتقد انه صعب ان الواحد يدركه من أول مرة و لكني استمتعت بشكل كبير جدا بيه. فكرته فكرتني جدا بخطبة الوداع لسيدنا محمد (ص) , و ده مفسره ثروت عكاشة في المقدمة عن تأثر جبران بالانجيل و القرأن و النسخة الانجليزيه في أسلوبها الشعري و الرومانسي متأثر جدا بأسلوب ترجمة الانجيل , حتي الالفاظ المستخدمة شعرية انجليلة بشكل واضح.

ثروت عكاشة ابدع في الترجمة لم يجعلها ترجمة حرفية أو حتي ترجمة محترفية ناقلة فقط بالعكس أنا كنت احيانا بنسي انها ترجمة, أسلوبه الشعر More...

Now that I'm reading The Prophet again, words that I read twenty-seven years ago still ring clearly in my mind as I read them again today. It was a wonderful moment a few evenings ago to find myself reciting aloud and from memory passages that had struck me then--and now--to the very core. Kahlil Gibran spent a couple of years revising The Prophet. Since it is a short book, the concepts come across as distilled. The influences of his native Lebanon as well as his love for scripture, come through More...

ترجمة , ثروت عكاشة,

ترجمة رائعة حقا, تشعرك أن النص قد كتب بالعربية.


كلمات جبران تذكرني بالتعبير المصري "يطري عالقلب"

يعصر علي قلبك عصارة حلاوة و دفء عواطفه من خلال كلماته.

في هذه الأيام تعلمت معني أن استمتع بالأدب و أحلق معه , حتي لو لم اتفق مع أفكار الكاتب,

فكرة جبران الرئيسية تدور حول الرومانسية المثالية , و تحقيق الفردوس الكامل علي الأرض ,

حيث يعيش الكل بوئام و حب و سلام.

و هو مالن يحدث في هذه الحياة, بل سيتحقق فقط في فردوس الآخرة.

لكن بالرغم من ذلك استفدت علي مستوي الأفكار.

مقدمة ثروت عكاشة مفيدةو ضر More...

أجمل ما في هذا الكتاب هو المقدمة التي كتبها المترجم د. ثروت عكاشة والتي تناهز المئة صفحة.
فيها ذكر سيرة جبران، وقد انبهرت بكثير من الحقائق التي ذكرها خاصة علاقته بـ"ماري هاسكل".
ومن الأمور المفيدة في المقدمة تحليله حول فكر جبران وعقيدته، وكيف أنه أقرب إلى الصوفية والإيمان بوحودة الوجود والحلول من أي شيء آخر. وأيضا من تبيانه أنه ثمة تناص في الشكل على الأقل بين ما كتبه جبران وبين ما كتبه نيتشه.

كتب "النبي" أصلا بالإنكليزية، ولم يترجمه جبران إلى العربية. ترجمة د. عكاشة بليغة جدا وفيها روح أدبية رائعة More...

يلقِّب البعض هذا الكتاب بإنجيل جبران. أعتقد أن هذا هو الوصف الأفضل لكتاب اقتبس كاتبه حروفه من نور سماوي.

أحمد الديب
2008

الطبعة التي قرأتها عن (دار العرب للبستاني)..مكتوب عليها أنها الترجمة الوحيدة التي أقرها جبران
وهي ترجمة: أنطونيوس بشير
الطبعة الثانية-1985

ومرفق بها الاثني عشرة لوحة التي رسمها جبران لهذا الكتاب-للأصل الانجليزي لهذا الكتاب-
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استمتعتُ بقراءة هذا الكتاب الصغير
،وجداني جدًا،وفلسفته المحبة المعطاءة..ليس متفائلاً أو متشائمًا،بل يحاول أن ينبه لماوراء كل فعل وسلوك يشترك فيه البشر
تكلم عن الدين والزواج والعمل والصداقة والشريعة والجريمة والشر والخير..
عن الحب والعطاء الذي في كل شئ،عن عمق هذه الأشياء جميعًا
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This book is cool because it is an excellent display of how similar the world's religions truly are. When it comes down to it, they are really all the same and the differences are mainly aesthetic.

However, pretty much any person who has learned about many different religions is really going to come to the same conclusion. All the religions in the world are all compatible, because their entire purpose is to provide a belief system to help people in a society get along. The rules that make humans More...

Despite your religious views, be they absent or strong, Gibran has given us a work of beauty that proves, to me at least, that faith is not necessary to be good and right.

A favorite quote from the book:

"Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

Lee

a book for anyone willing to step outside of the insitutionalized perspective of life that most of America and the world finds itself in. Every line is an intuitive and insightful proclamation of the gut feelings we all have about the way life can be lived and should be lived. I have heard the quote on marriage being like two trees standing near each other with a little space between them so the wind (God) can come between them. it's an extremely popular and inspirational book!

This is a semi-poetic collection of views on important things in life, like love, giving, crime and punishment, pain, talking, and beauty. They are told by a wise person who gives his opinions when solicited by the town on his day of departure. I like this part:

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though the More...

تعجز الكلمات عن وصفه. جبران خليل استخدم فيه اسلوب ينفذ الى الروح ليعطيك خلاصة و خيرات خبراته فى الحياه. الكتاب به عصارة فكر. و خلاصة تجارب. منهج حياة وضعه جبران خليل جبران ببراعة و بلاغة تفوق الوصف في سطور معدودة. و نقله للعربية د. ثروت عكاشة ببلاغة و أسلوب عميق دون التأثير علي المعني نهائيا. استمتعت بقراءة النص بالانجليزية و النظر إلي ما لا اعرفه من معاني في الترجمة الموازية الممتازة. لابد من قراءة هذا الكتاب الراقي .. الرائع!

*تحديث*
بعد قراءه بعضا من "رمل و زبد" .. أريد اضافة أنه مختلف تماما عن More...

The song of love ,love of nature, and all other creatures
, love that illuminates the wonderful aspects of life and that gives life meaning and depth. ……
He believe in the purity of human being and the goodness hidden in every soul, that is devoid of any evil … it is a whisper on spirituality……

A quote that I liked….

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the n More...

The Prophet by Kalil Ghibran

This book was given to me as a gift from my director in the last show that I did. I carried it with me everywhere and read it on the train, anytime I was waiting or bored. It brought me such immense comfort and inspiration. When I would read it’s pages before a long day at work, I came to work much more peaceful, than crabby. It’s messages are simple, yet profound and there is room in them to interpret them and hear them according to wherever you are in your life. I t More...

Re-read a classic to start off the new year. As with every classic, this too turned up in a new light. With echoes of Schopenhauer, Kant and even Comte, this deep poem suddenly took new life in this reading. Now what is left is to search out which way the influence spread before flowering in this expression - east to west, the other way, or is it an early amalgamation of all philosophy like all truly great poems are.

This book is a fantastic read of wisdom literature. Do you question passion, death, love, friends, pain, sorrow, work, and life's many other complexities?
If so, read this because the prophet addresses so many of life's complexities with honest, simple and faithful answers. Praise to Gibran.

" ومنكم من يسعى إلى من يثرثرون؛ خشية الخلو إلى نفسه ؛ لأن سكون الوحدة يكشف لأعينهم خفايا ذواتهم العارية فيفرون منها . "

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" ومن اكتسى بفضائله ليبرز في أبهى زيه ، أولى به أن يظل عاريا "


النبي
جبران خليل جبران

كتاب حفُر في قلبي

هي فلسفة الحياة بكل ما تحمله
من فرح و حزن و إدراك و فهم
و عبادة و صداقة .

أحسست بـِأن جبران يتجول داخل عقلي
و يدون ما يجده بداخله !

هي نفس أفكاري ، نفس معتقداتي
نفس إدراكي للحياة.

هي فلسفة تصلح لكل الأزمان
و كل الأوقات

كتاب قلما أن يقرأه شخص
ولا يتأثر به !

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قرأت ترجمة د.ثروت عكا More...

The Prophet, by Kahil Gibran, was a book given to me years ago... It's a man talking of all the elements in life, in such a beautiful way, so as to respect the meaning and depth in all our most heart felt experiences...

For me, life is fascinating, the richness of different experiences and in so many ways id like to respect the elements of life, to analyse, but in an emotional heart felt way, like a poet does, or a painter that paints the land, all of it's colours, bright and grey... Kahil Gibran More...

اولا احب ان انوه بانى لست من محبى الرومانسيه الادبيه عموما ...لكنى قدرت جدا اللغه الراقيه و المجهود المعجز فى تجسيد ما لا يمكن تجسيده

الحريه..العدل..الحب..الموت...العمل...الصلاه

انها المعانى المطلقه التى لا تعبر عنها كلمات لكنه ها هو جبران يكتب ما لا يستطيع غيره ان يكتب

ملحوظه:تظل طوال الوقت تتمنى حفظ الكلمات و الجمل او ان تقصها و تعلقها على حائط قلبك...لم اقرأ كتاب من قبل كل جمله تصلح كاقتباس كهذا الكتاب لذا

متوفر ككتاب صوتى ...مميز...و كان من اجمل الكتب الصوتيه اللى سمعتها/قريتها فى حياتى...شكرا More...

بی ستاره بودن بهترین پاداش برای جبران است او و اثرش به قضاوت امثال من نیازی ندارد. چند ستاره باید داده شود تا آن چنان که شاید تحسین شده باشد؟ ما برای قضاوت زودیم! و برای آفرین گفتن بس کوچک... آیا سکوت نشان بهتری نیست؟ و بی انصافی ست که دستان مردی را نادیده بگیریم و یا گزینشی سلیقه وار انجام دهیم، انتقاد چیز خوبی است و نقد منصفانه با رعایت اصول اخلاقی و آریایی اصیل زیبا ست پس بی ستاره باد این اثر! وبه امید آن که خوبان به دیده خوب بدان بنگرند... بهار

There is a wealth of insight and wisdom in this book. I don't remember exactly when I first read it all the way through, but I regularly pull it out and read portions of it.

Here is the quote that has remained strongest in my mind over the years. I frequently recite some of these lines when I'm making a bid for the sweet blessedness of silence:

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart
you live in your lips,
And sound More...

" و مگر فردا را چه ارمغانی است از برای سگ دوراندیشی که استخوانی را در زیر ریگ‌های بی‌نشان بیایان پنهان می‌کند و خود به دنبال قافله زائران به راه می‌افتد؟ و مگر ترس از نیاز همان نیاز نیست؟"
این کتاب رو بیشتر از 5سال پیش خوندم، با این حال هنوز خیلی از قسمت‌هاش رو یادمه. اگه این کتاب رو خونده باشید می فهمید چی می‌گم و اگه نخوندید این بار که رفتید کتاب‌فروشی یه نگاهی بهش بندازید تا بفهمید چی می‌گم.

well..of course..we all know this book has plenty of wisdom for the 'with it' and 'without it' generation..

what is also striking is the simplicity of the language and the pragmatism in his outlook to life..

Be it on relationships between couple or parent-child or work or passion, the author is impeccable and extremely refined thoughts are bound to grow on you..

The more you read the book..the better..
like they say the older the age of the wine..the better..

this one is clearly the one to cherish an More...

I honestly don't know why I waited this long to read this book. I've heard so much about it, but didn't really think it would live up to the hype. This is the first time I read anything by Kahlil Gibran, and I was blown away.

If you like poetry, I would suggest you put whatever book you're holding right now and read this immediately. If you do not like poetry, this will be the book that will make you love it.

98% Nonsense. I feel dizzy.

There are a couple nice lines in here:

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

And,

"Beauty is eternity looking at itself in the mirror."

THAT'S IT, though. There is nothing else worth reading. Yea Verily, I say unto ye that ye cannot be intelligent or well-re More...

I’m glad I don’t classify books by topic. I wouldn’t know where to file this one. Fiction? Poetry? Spirituality? Self-help? Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is all of these.

Written in the framework of fiction, the characters and setting of the Prophet are mere vehicles for a great necklace of pearls of wisdom. The main figure, a prophet named Almustafa, has been living for twelve years on a hill above a remote village by the sea. His ship has come to port to carry him home at last, but before he goe More...