Kahlil Gibran’s writings are known for it’s mystic features. Not just his writings but his paintings too had that enigmatic quality that keeps itself an exception in the fields of art and literature. To quote Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker “Kahlil Gibran’s writings are the loving explorations of the path of Truth. The seekers is lonely and bewildered by the experiences of Life; from the depths of ignorance and sorrow, his soul cries out for comfort.”
The Prophet which had been published in 1923 for the first time is known to be Kahlil Gibran’s most popular work. It has been translated into more than 40 world languages and can even considered as one of the bestselling books for all time. In The Prophet Kahlil Gibran discusses with the readers on the day to day life of common man. The topics discussed in this book are of love, marriage, death, children, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, giving, buying and selling, passion, law, freedom, pain, self-knowledge, pleasure, religion, beauty etc.
Everything that comes our daily life is discussed with a profound enigmatic quality in his poetry. It is Almustafa, the prophet who speaks of all these matters in Kahlil Gibran’s mystic poem. The prophet, Almustafa had been living in a foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and then he has decided to go back to his home town. Before boarding the ship he is stopped by a group of people. It is to the questions of this group of people he gives out his answers which becomes the flesh and blood of the work The Prophet.
Of Love he spokes these words:
When you love you should not say “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
In these words you can find the mystic and spiritual element in Love. But it’s not this alone that he had said in this poem. The real life love which binds ourselves together and which creates meaning in our daily life is too mentioned here. Here again he spoke of Love thus:
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your
heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”
In the above given lines it’s not the mystic thoughts of love that comes to your mind. But it’s a common man’s life that is discussed in these lines. It’s to the people of Orphalese he proclaims love like this. Thus in the same poem both the eternal and the humane meanings of love is given forth.
Kahlil Gibran’s writings may seem obscure and opaque to those who can appreciate nothing but the drab and raw realities of everyday life. Those who are devoid of the visionary company his writings may appear strange, 
unfamiliar and even mysterious and occult. But to those who are not running before merely the fantacies of day to day life Gibran’s inspirational utterances are revelations and epiphanies and his perceptions beyond life and time.
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran’s most popular work, written in the best Sufi tradition is also a reminiscent of the psalms and hymns of the Bible by which he has been greatly influenced. The work in itself is a self-manifestation this prophetic vision. Kahlil Gibran’s poetry is not devoid of mainsprings of life. It can be seen in intensity of his utterances which arouse from deeply felt personal experiences.
The Prophet, a collection of truly inspired prose and poetry marks with itself a high peak of spirituality and mysticism in the 20th century world poetry.