Kahlil left us in 1931 with a promise to return. In the final chapter of his spiritual classic, The Prophet, he wrote.

“Should my voice fade in your ears, and my love vanish in your memory, then I will return again.

And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak.

Yea I shall return with the tide . . .

A little while, a moments rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.”

Hajjar Gibran an ancestral descendent of Kahlil Gibran, seemed an unlikely person to carry on Kahlil’s mythical legacy. Besides having no literary training, Hajjar showed no sign of innate wisdom. Reflecting on his troubled past his mother said, “Hajjar didn’t know the difference between right and wrong.” 

Tormented by his brother’s tragic death as a teenager Hajjar spiraled into a dark descent that culminated in a psychological catharsis accompanied by a mystical voice claiming to be the spirit of The Prophet.

For many years The Prophet guided Hajjar on an unconventional lifelong odyssey through a series of visionary experiences that ultimately prepared him for his destiny.

In 2001, with hopes of unraveling the mystery of the voice speaking through him, Hajjar made a pilgrimage to Kahlil’s tomb in an ancient monastery high in the mountains of Lebanon, in the small village of Bsherri; Kahlil’s birthplace. There, Hajjar was instinctually led to find inexplicable evidence of his previous life as Kahlil.

Overwhelmed with feelings of homecoming, Hajjar glimpsed the truth of life beyond death and his spiritual awakening inspired an outpouring of poetic verse that continued over a period of years while he was in retreat in southern Thailand.

When the writing was complete, serendipity delivered to the isolated beach on the remote island in the south sea of Siam, a literary agent from New York City who immediately recognized the authenticity of the manuscript. Within months The Return of the Prophet was being translated for publication the world over.

If ever there was a time we need guidance, the time is now. If ever there was a voice that spoke to the heart of all humanity, it was the voice of Gibran, a Lebanese Arab Christian reared among Muslims, who immigrated to the USA to write and speak in both English and Arabic, whose work has been translated in more than twenty languages. No one in our global culture has bridged these polarities quite like this man and he did it successfully.

We live at a time of unprecedented conflict in our world; where hatred gets more coverage than harmony and problems more press than peace. The Prophet had a lot to say about the underlying goodness in the heart of humanity and about how our decency becomes perverted. He reminds us of the truths that can make our lives glorious and we may all do well to listen and remember.

Is The Prophet back? You decide.

Here is an excerpt from the introduction of The Return of The Prophet;

“This book is part of the story of how my prayers where answered through a series of prophetic episodes that revealed the hidden purpose of our life.

Yesterday, between dawn and twilight, I was forever attempting to make sense of the mystery of existence. I thought my lifetime a mere flicker of the flame of eternity, a tenuous speck of dust lifted momentarily by the heartless winds that roam through the infinite void.

Today, I am enchanted by the direct experience of an invisible presence that somehow knows my needs better than I wanted to admit.

For many years an inner prompting beckoned me to rise to my spiritual calling, but I doubted the truth I was destined to realize, and in my doubt, I suffered. I was a wounded man dreaming of love yet not ready to be the one I prayed to become.

Now the dream has grown to shape the very core of my life and shake the foundation of who I know myself to be.

While I was unaware of my expansion and bemoaning the confusion of my emergence, a joy sweeter than music and greater than laughter came to me. The one who prayed was pulled inward by the sheer immensity of the one who answered.

Later, intent on writing an account of my bewildering experiences, my hand was guided by the unseen, yet now familiar, presence. I witnessed the words emerge effortlessly from my deepest feelings, but in a dialect not my own. Even now I sit spellbound as my pen glides with the ease of an angel’s grace.

Much of what is conveyed to me comes as profound, yet subtle impressions. I am in awe to witness on these pages the thoughts that express the epiphanies of my heart.

I share my story with you because I believe it is your story too. The Prophet represents the spirit that dwells in all of us. I pray that my book helps us awaken to our common spirituality. Together in love we are divine.

With great joy I offer you this parable of spiritual awakening based on my journey into the light. May it ignite a celebration of love in your heart.”