Y Proffwyd (Khalil Gibran)

A bydded eich gorau er mwyn eich cyfaill.
Os rhaid iddo wybod trai eich llanw, bydded iddo wybod ei lif hefyd.
Canys ai rhywun i’w geisio ag oriau i’w lladd yw eich cyfaill?
Ceisiwch ef bob amser ag oriau i’w byw.
Canys ei eiddo ef yw diwallu’ch angen, eithr nid llenwi’ch gwacter.
Ac ym melyster cyfeillgarwch, bydded chwerthin a rhannu pleserau.
Canys yng ngwlith y pethau bychain y mae’r galon yn canfod ei bore ac yn cael ei hadfywio.

The Prophet is a book of 26 fables written in English prose poetry by the Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran. It was first published in 1923 and is Gibran’s best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 languages, including this Welsh translation by Dimitri Hrapof, making it one of the most translated books in history. It has never been out of print.

The narrative introduces us to the Prophet Almustafa, who has waited twelve years for his ship, which will finally take him back to his homeland. Before leaving, some inhabitants of the city of Orphalese ask him to convey to them his insights on various topics for the last time (“Speak to us of…”). The Prophet relates 26 sermons that deal with basic questions of human life, such as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, 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 finally death. In the final chapter, Almustafa interweaves a discussion about the question of meaning into his parting words.

Paperback, 136pp with illustrations.

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