"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often filled with your tears."As the prophet Almustafa prepares to board a ship that will carry him home after twelve years in exile, the people of Orphalese gather to ask him one last time for his wisdom. In twenty-eight luminous essays — on love, marriage, children, work, joy, sorrow, freedom, and death — he speaks with the simple authority of a man who has looked deeply into human experience and found in it something worth honouring.First published in 1923 and translated into more than forty languages, The Prophet holds a Goodreads rating of 4.23 and has sold more than ten million copies in English alone. Rupi Kaur calls it her all-time favourite collection of poems: a book that doesn't feel like reading but like listening to your favourite song. It became the spiritual touchstone of the 1960s generation and continues to offer comfort and clarity to new readers across every culture.
