Almost a hundred years after it was first published, the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, remains one of the most beloved books of all time. It comprises 26 prose poems delivered as philosophical, spiritual, and inspirational sermons by the wise al Mustafa on the big questions of life—love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion and death. In this illustrated edition, each Chapter is prefaced by full-page drawings by sujaya Batra making this beautiful book a delightful gift for anyone seeking enlightenment and inspiration.