The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran The Prophet Al Mustafa had lived in Orfalice for 12 years and was about to get on a boat that would take him home. He was stopped by a mob where he discussed topics such as human life and condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, happiness and sadness, home, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, freedom law, reason and passion, self-pain. - Knowledge, Teaching, Friendship, Talks, Time, Good and Bad, Prayer, Happiness, Beauty, Religion and Death.