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April 16,2025
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Magnificent like every other Gibran book that I ve ever read.
April 16,2025
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n  thus i became a madman
And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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this book is one of these too dear to my heart , this is another of Gibran books that is labeled as one of my all time favorites , i was writing the quote above and the Arabic form of "for those who understand us enslave something in us" "لأن الذين يُدركون كياننا إنما يستعبدون بعض ما فينا" was playing in my head like an old mantra from years ago , its one of these quotes that shock you when you first read them , then they are unforgettable , a frozen fraction of time , they are suddenly in your mind pockets till forever .
this book is a collection of short parables written with a sardonic tone which is both introspective and easily accessible . its fascinating in how wealthy the book is with meaning that's just hidden beneath the text . take this one as an example :

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Once I said to a scarecrow, “You must be tired of standing in this lonely field.”
And he said, “The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it.”
Said I, after a minute of thought, “It is true; for I too have known that joy.”
Said he, “Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.”
Then I left him, not knowing whether he had complimented or belittled me.
A year passed, during which the scarecrow turned philosopher.
And when I passed by him again I saw two crows building a nest under .
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i remember the first time i read this , i didnt get it . i had to re-read it several times to get the hidden meaning and Uncovering it was like figuring out a puzzle . which its solution , if you are curious , is that the scarecrow was feeling power and pride in being something to be feared , but then only those whom inside is stuffed with straw no more would feel this way , and when wisdom filled him years after he figured out that this empty isolation and resentment are the misrepresentation of things . so he made friends with those who he used to scare away , he found company in a lonely field ..
and what a beautiful message it is to be delivered in few word in a simple story as that .

through out the book there's a subject he repeats under several titles , the different perspectives of people and putting one's self in the others shoes , we can see that in The eye , Said a blade of grass and The three ants .
all in all this one book , its words are not to be analysed but rather to be deeply felt in its communication and its inner loneliness .
April 16,2025
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Khalil Gibran has always been one of my favorite contemporary poets, the way he envisions the obvious despite it elusiveness , better still, how he perfectly manages to phrase them into mere abstract words rendering the reader completely speechless with tons of thoughts, feelings battling within, that what makes him the pioneer of evoking the un-evoke-able.
April 16,2025
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Halil Cibran çok seviyorum.
Yine satırlarına bayılarak okudum.
Şuana kadar okuduğum 5. Kitabı
ve sanki biraz tekrara düşüyor.
Belli konular hakkında çok fazla
dönmüş dolaşmış.
April 16,2025
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ما بالنا نتجادل فيما سيؤول إليه أمرنا فى المستقبل
فى حين أننا لا نعرف ما نحن عليه اليوم ؟

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الإنسان متى جلس على عرش الملك فقد صار عبداً
ومتى أدرك الناس أعماق روحه فقد طوى كتاب حياته
ومتى بلغ أوج كماله فقد قضي نحبه
بل هو كالثمرة إذا نضجت سقطت واندثرت

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وما الذكري سوى ورقة خريف لا ترتعش فى الهواء برهة ،
حتى تُكّفن بالتراب دهراً

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أشتاق إليك كثيراً يا جبران ،،
اشتاق إليك حين أرغب في الابتعاد عن الضجيج والصخب ،
حين أرغب في قراءة هادئة ..
فأقرأ عن نفس خاشعة وذات متواضعة لا تطلب إلا قليل من تأمل ولا تبحث إلا عن كثير من فكر ..

جبران ..
من المجنون يا عزيزي ؟
أهو أنت ؟؟
أم نحن ؟
أم هذا العالم الذي يلهث وراء نفسه كالثعب الذي يلهث وراء ذيله ؟

من المجنون يا عزيزي .. ؟

هل هذا الجمال جنون ؟
هل التواضع والفكر والهدوء جنون ؟
ماذا إذن عن عالمنا الحالي .. ووقتا الحاضر ؟؟؟؟

مهلاً ..

إنه حقاً جنون ..

فإذا كان الجنون هو كل سلوك غير مُعتاد لا يمكن تفسيره ..
فجمالك هنا ..

أكبر جنون
..
ودامت قراءآتك كلها بهذا الجمال المجنون
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April 16,2025
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کتاب دیوانه از جبران خلیل جبران مجموعه‌ای از چندین داستان بسیار کوتاه با مضامین اخلاقی و در فضایی شاعرانه‌ست که هم متن‌های عالی داره و هم متن‌های نه چندان جالب. اولین داستانش رو می‌نویسم: «داستان دیوانه شدنم را برای کسانی که مایلند بشنوند، تعریف می‌کنم. در روزگار قدیم و زما��ی که هنوز خیلی از خدایان متولد نشده بودند، روزی بیدار شدم و دیدم که تمام نقاب‌هایم را دزدیده‌اند. یعنی هر هفت نقابی که به دست خود بافته بودم و طی هفت بار زندگی‌ام بر روی زمین به چهره زده بودم، همگی دزدیده شده بود. آن موقع با چهره‌ای بی‌نقاب به خیابان‌های شلوغ دویدم و در میان مردم فر یاد زدم: آهای دزد، دزد، دزدهای لعنتی! مرد و زن با شنیدن داد و فریاد من به خنده افتادند و بعضی‌ها از ترس من، هراسان به طرف خانه‌هایشان فرار کردند. وقتی به میدان بزرگ شهر رسیدم، پسری جوان از پشت بام یکی از خانه‌ها سر بلند کرد و فریاد زد: آهای مردم، این مرد دیوانه است! همین که سرم را بلند کردم تا نگاهش کنم، آفتاب روی صورت برهنه‌ام افتاد و این اولین بار بود که آفتاب چهره‌ی بی‌نقابم را می‌دید و می‌بوسید. من از محبت آفتاب به وجد آمدم و دیگر به نقاب نیازی پیدا نکردم. انگار که در خلسه فرو رفته باشم، فریاد زدم: دستشان درد نکند؛ دزدهایی که نقاب‌هایم ر ا بردند!»ه
April 16,2025
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enjoyed reading this book :)

my fav chapter was "My Friend" and these are my fav lines of it:

"The I in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall re main for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating against the stars and fain would not have thee hear or see. I would be with night alone.

When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone.

My friend, thou art not my friend, but how shall I make thee understand? My path is not thy path, yet together we walk, hand in hand."
April 16,2025
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It was My Friend that did it, that kindled a fire within my heart and now that I have finished this book I am still strangely brimming with emotion, though more calm than before. You read some books, some words, a passage even, and wonder what on earth were you doing before! Why were you wasting your time with nonsense when something like this was present and could have been read instead! This is truly a very, very beautiful book and I can only imagine how his fuller books like The Prophet would be like. War was a small rendition of a childhood story my father used to tell my brother and I and it was one of our favorites. The Wise King is somewhere told in one of Paulo Coelho's books, The Devil and Miss Prym maybe, though I'm not sure. It always feels sweet reading something familiar. Amid these sweet, familiar somethings are also sour, little ironies and taunts, most prominent in The Scarecrow, The Fox, and The Sleep-Walkers. The Pomegranate made me laugh, and I liked the sound of that laugh, which is something! The Grave-Digger has mystical colors, The Two Learned Men quietly puts you in your place and advises you in hushed tones, Crucified is poetry, beautiful, powerful poetry, The Greater Sea is honest and truthful and thought-provoking, Faces reminded me that to get hold of reality, we must first learn to look through and beyond our own reflection and projection. It is strange but true that if you try to look hard into someone's eyes, you see your own reflection there. This is where Gibran says, "... I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath." Only when one learns to look through one's own reflection, prejudices and preconceptions, and beyond them can then one hope to attain a glimpse of truth. And what a big, long paragraph!

The language and poetry of Night and the Madman will swallow you in and throw you out intoxicated, breathless, subdued. I have yet to gather my thoughts on The Blessed City, and make my peace with it. The Three Ants again advises you like The Two Learned Men, and it's advice worth taking. Well, there you have it. Read, in God's name, read Gibran if you haven't already! He will make you fall in love with him in two pages and show you a mirror in which you'll see yourself somewhere. I, at least, saw myself and heard myself and was terrified and pleased, at the same time. Time enough, readers, to read something that could do that to you.
April 16,2025
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قصص قصيرة فلسفية هادئة تماما كما هي عادة جبران خليل جبران
لا يستفزك بحديثه إنما يُهدهدك .

ماذا بعد القراءة ؟
تذكرت قول ستيفن كينغ:
أعتقد بأننا جميعاً نُعاني من الجنون نوعاً ما ، كُل ما في الأمر أن أولئك الذين يعيشون حياتهم خارج المصحات العقلية استطاعوا أن يخفوا جنونهم بشكل أفضل.

#أبجدية_فرح 5/5
April 16,2025
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اقتباس | "الجنون يُعدُّ الخطوة الأولى لإنعدام الأنانية وهكذا صرت مجنوناً ولكنني قد وجدت بجنوني هذا الحرية والنجاة معاً: حرية الانفراد والنجاة، من أن يدرك كياني، لأن الذين يدركون كياننا إنما يستعبدون بعض مافينا..

انه أول كتاب لجبران باللغة الانجليزية وترجم للعربية ..وهو مجموعة قصصية قصيرة تتحدث عن الذات في علاقاتها بنفسها وبالآخرين وتحليل النفس البشرية في نزعاتها واهوائها وبها العديد من الرمزيات واستعارات وتشبيهات

ابهرتني لغة الكاتب جداً وفلسفته وهذا يتضح من الصفحات الأولى الاسلوب جاء بسيط أما اللغة اضافت جمالاً على جمال فالقصص كتبت بلغة أدبية راقية .. بعض من القصص قصيرة جداً و من كل قصة كان جبران يرمز لشيء معين فاستخدم رمزية الجنون للتعبير بحرية عن العادات ومايعيشة المجتمع من تخلف وبؤس واضطهاد ..الخ، لذلك تحتاج هذه القصص لقراءة متأنية لمعرفة رمزياتها فكما ذكر في الكتاب ان القارئ يستنبط منها تبعاً لثقافتة ورؤيته ومفاهيمة .. .

بالنسبة لي بعض من القصص اعجبتني وبعضها بسيط جدا بغض النظر عن رمزياتها
April 16,2025
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لم أقرأ لجبران من قبل، وكانت له صورة في خيالي سرعان ما تكسرت.
استعراض عضلات لغوي، خرجت ضائعة فارغة، بين قصص قصيرة وشعر وهلوسات
بعذ ان فرغت منها، سالت نفسي: ماذا قرأت للتو؟؟ لم يعلق شئ في ذهني
ابلغ ما قيل هي الخاتمة :لما أنا هاهنا لما أنا هاهنا؟
تقييمي: خيبة امل كبيرة
April 16,2025
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جبران خليل جبران.

بس كده !!!.

النسخة الإنجليزية أفضل بمراحل، و بها بعض المعاني و التعبيرات التي لم يتم ترجمتها جيدا.
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