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"انظر يا حبيبي .. انظر يا عريس نفسي كيف وقف الحساد حول مضجعنا .. انظر عيونهم المحدقة بنا و اسمع صرير أسنانهم وتكسّر ضلوعهم. قد انتظرتني طويلًا يا سليم .. فها أنذا قد كسرت القيود و فككت السلاسل، فلنُسرعنّ نحو الشمس فقد طال وقوفنا في الظل. ها قد انمحت الرسوم و انحجبت الأشياء فلم اعد أرى سواك يا حبيبي.. هاشفتاي فاقتبل أنفاسي الأخيرة. هلُمّ نذهب يا سليم، فقد رفع الحب أجنحته و سبح أمامنا نحو دائرة النور.و ألقت العروس صدرها على صدر حبيبها فامتزجت دماؤها بدمائه، و أحنت رأسها على عنقه، و ظلّت عيناها محدقتين بعينيه" !

les esprits rebelles

The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup of happiness and said, "Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And He also gave her a cup of sorrow and said, "Drink from this cup and you will understand the meaning of the fleeting instants of the joy of life, for sorrow ever abounds."

And the God bestowed upon her a love that would desert he forever upon her first sigh of earthly satisfaction, and a sweetness that would vanish with her first awareness of flattery.

A Tear and a Smile

UPON A DAY IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR Jesus stood in the market-place of Jerusalem and He spoke to the multitudes of the kingdom of heaven.

And He accused the scribes and the Pharisees of setting snares and digging pitfalls in the path of those who long after the kingdom; and He denounced them.

Now amongst the crowd was a company of men who defended the Pharisees and the scribes, and they sought to lay hands upon Jesus and upon us also.

But He avoided them and turned aside from them, and walked towards the north gate of the city.

And He said to us, "My hour has not yet come. Many are the things I have still to say unto you, and many are the deeds I shall yet perform ere I deliver myself up to the world."

Jesus, The Son of Man

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, activist, and visual artist. Deeply thoughtful and spiritual, Gibran was also considered a philosopher although he rejected the title.
Gibran is celebrated as a literary hero in Lebanon. He is widely considered the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth century.
Contents:
Sand and Foam 
The Prophet 
The Madman, His Parables And Poems

Kahlil Gibran. Classic Collection

Durant toutes ces années, le prophète a côtoyé les collines, conversé avec les vents et murmuré au creux des arbres. Étranger au peuple d'Orphalese, il a pourtant appris à le connaître et à l'aimer. Or, à l'heure de repartir vers sa terre natale, il éprouve une grande tristesse. Car c'est au sein de ce peuple, grâce à tout ce que lui a insufflé ce lieu, qu'il a pu mûrir la sagesse qu'il va désormais dispenser. Et c'est à Orphalese qu'à l'heure de l'adieu, dans un ultime échange, il s'accomplit comme prophète. On l'interroge sur les grandes préoccupations humaines et, inlassablement, il chuchote sa réponse avec tendresse et compréhension, sans dogmatisme. Long poème en prose, Le Prophète nous livre une conception de la religion qui est une conception de la vie. Étonnamment moderne, le panthéisme de Khalil Gibran conduit le divin vers des régions accessibles à tous. Nul besoin d'être chrétien du Liban, comme son auteur, pour se laisser bercer par le doux balancement des phrases. D'une grande indulgence envers les faiblesses de l'homme, mais aussi d'une grande confiance dans ses possibilités, cette modulation de L'Ecclésiastique, publiée en 1925, est sans doute le texte auquel Gibran a consacré le plus d'efforts. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters

Le prophète

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Khalil Gibran in Lebanon (at the time a Syrian Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent much of his productive life in the United States. While most of Gibran's early writings were in Syriac and Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran also took part in the New York Pen League, also known as the "immigrant poets" (al-mahjar), alongside other important Lebanese American authors such as Ameen Rihani ("the father of Lebanese American literature"), Mikhail Naimy and Elia Abu Madi. Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of 26 poetic essays, first written in English in 1923. The Prophet remains famous to this day, having been translated into more than 20 languages. Other works in English include: Spirits Rebellious, (1908), The Broken Wings (1912), A Tear and a Smile (1914), The Forerunner (1920), Sand and Foam (1926), Jesus the Son of Man (1928), The Earth Gods (1929), The Wanderer (1932) and The Garden of the Prophet (1933).

L'errant

Il Profeta è l'opera più famosa del poeta e filosofo libanese Khalil Gibran (1883-1931). Alla gente che gli chiede di parlare dell'amore, della vita, della morte, del denaro, del lavoro, dei figli e delle tante altre problematiche umane, il profeta Almustafà risponde con profonda saggezza, in una ineguagliata sintesi del pensiero occidentale e orientale, della Bibbia e degli insegnamenti dei mistici Sufi. Un prezioso testo sapienziale che aiuta a conoscere meglio se stessi e il proprio compito nella vita - e oltre. Di questa sua opera Gibran stesso disse: "Tutto Il profeta dice un'unica cosa: Sei molto più grande di quanto tu non sappia - e Tutto è bene".

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