After twelve years spent in a foreign land, Almustafa finally sees the ship arrive that will take him back to his native island. Before leaving the people of Orphalese, he offers them a precious spiritual testament. Twenty-six answers to the questions posed to him, in which he addresses the essential themes of life: love, time, good and evil, work, death, marriage, and the act of giving. Written in 1923 by the Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, *The Prophet* is one of the most widely read books in the world. Today, it is a classic of wisdom and spiritual literature. Khalil Gibran's essential work