God (1918) | A Poem by Khalil Gibran
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- Narrated by Daniel "Avi" Avinash.
Inspired by Biblical text, Khalil Gibran describes a man's quest to knowing God. He climbs a mountain with the hope of speaking to God and experiencing His presence but fails three times. He does not give up. On his fourth journey, God replies. The poem expresses the importance of determination, persistence, and even a pesterous attitude when desiring to know God.
If we seek God, He will answer... at His perfect time.
THE PROPHET
This poem "God" is the second of 26 prose poetry fables from the book "The Prophet". In this book, poet Khalil Gibran talks about a fictional prophet Al Mustafa who lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is then stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics about life and the human condition in general.
Music: I Beg You Mountains by Yeghishe Manukyan
Recorded and produced in Melbourne, Australia by Daniel "Avi" Avinash
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The Glorious Quran says "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp; the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allāh guides to His light whom He wills. And Allāh presents examples for the people, and Allāh is Knowing of all things.
Hi Samad, thank you for taking the time to comment! I truly love and appreciate your views on God. We "people of the book" have so much in common... its a pity we don't actually realise it.
May God bless you and your family always.
Poetry Unforgotten
The Bible says Jesus is the creator of all things and is the light of the world. I’ll go with him, thank you.
There is NO GOD, NOR ALLAH, OR the different gods pertaining to Hinduism , did BUDDAHA really live...did he sit under a BOHDI TREE ...all beliefs are words passed down thru/through time to gather believers...& it must be stated / said to pay your penance, often coin related for you to believe & gain acceptance into your chosen road/way of obivious disillusionment .....
Nature is god.
The Quaran is the first assend, a Master-Slave relationship with God.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
"Allah says: 'I am just as My servant thinks I am, and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.' "
Slave-Master relationship with God, don't you see the irony in the story and what you're trying to defend?
@@Wisdom.Phoenix Hey. I'll try and explain to you although I can't help but assume that you might quite lack an open mind(pardon me if I am wrong).
First of all, you need to understand the difference between the ideas of the two words 'slave' and 'servant' because the Quran refers to a Servant-Master relationship(among other relationships like Creator-Creation) and not the one you mentioned. You see, we humans have a free will unlike slaves. We can choose to obey or disobey ,love or hate and so on. I hope that is simple enough.
Now, it is very much unfair to think that God as a Master will treat his servants the same as a 'Human Master' treats his servant. It is awful to think that being the servant of God makes you any inferior. Humans indeed are nothing or are 'if there was another word of lesser weight'.
We commonly perceive that a master is always rude towards his servant. We do also see that there are some kind masters who treat there servants very well. And here the Master is God, the Kindest, the Mightiest, the Most forgiving, the Most Gracious. There many such attributes of God mentioned in the Quran that a righteous, humble individual you would be most proud of becoming the servant of such a Master.
You just need to study the religion with an open mind. And I would like to point out that westernized(especially that of Modern America) ideas almost make you brainwashed to force you into thinking in a particular way. I don't say that all of the ideas are bad. But the vices of many of them are tremendous. It is sad that such a great mind like that of Khalil Gibran had been a victim of those vices.
This poem turns PRAYER.
K. GIBRAN is great.❤❤
Quite the case Priya! Thanks for the comment! Nice having you around.
Avi :)
GOD IS EVERYWHERE ☆
For thousands of years we’ve tried to reach God, we build lavish churches, synagogue, mosque and temple search the high mountains and galaxies and mind to reach HIM, forgetting that God is all around us and within us.
LIKE PEACE....WHICH GOD DID NOT ENTER INTO MAN/WOMENKIND .....unless you where dumb enough to follow & believe ?
God's connection to us comes from the soul which is within us. Not from a book or a church or a preacher.
the boogeyman is also around us
how beautiful !!!!! I love his works !!!! so profound and yet romantic !!!!
Thanks for the comment Judith! It's a good way of putting it: "Profound yet romantic"! How rare to find such a combination today.
This is so powerful!
With due respect to Kahlil Jesus said..
I AM the way, the truth and the life and no one enters the kingdom of heaven except through me.. and it didn’t take three thousand years..
…♥️.. Thank you God..
Great work Avi😮👏🏼
Rest in peace 🙏
Kahlil Gibran
6 January 1883 ~
10 April 1931⚘
Thanks for the comment Zovalentine. Stay safe!
Daniel Avinash
AMEN!!!!!!
i knew when he started speaking unto god poetically, god had to respond ...lol " i am thou root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky " what a player lol
My favorite
He wasnt looking for The God. He was looking for His God.
Many people seek God, but conditionally. In terms only that are acceptable to them.
Very few seek Him unconditionally, with terms that dont matter. As long as it is really Him and His way (Allah, Islam)
And so have you succeeded in seeking YOUR God. Assuming you spoke to him in arabic since he cant accept other language
1st mistake was climbing that Mountain, God is everywhere in everything, all lifeforms all inert substance.
You have No need to attend Church or Mosque, or any house if worship, remember God the Great Spirit is with you wherever you may be.
All of the so called Holy Books got it wrong, because it was penned to paper by Man. Man is Fallible and as such anything written by Man can be wrong also. Also we misinterpret many things, God's message most of all, it gets bent to suit our petty needs and desires, the Crusades and term " God wills it" for one, who are we to Know God's will, we are Soul's living a Human experience, Fighting over God is Pathetic, like Two brothers fighting over whose Father is the strongest 😔.
Love and Light to All Steve Wild Eagle 🦅
Hi Steve, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts!
Crafted Draft
Beautiful, thank you. ;D
Thank you Mirko. I strive to do more of such. Avi.
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Amen.
Indeed!
this is so 🔥🔥
love it
Thanks for your comment! Have a great festive holiday! Stay safe :)
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1.918., incredible.. and still.. people are fighting about God.
That's true. Sad. But still true. Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Avi.
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Islam - 1st assend (Master-Slave)
Judaism - 2nd assend (Creator-Creation)
Christianity - 3rd assend (Father-Son)
Enlightened - 4th assend (God-God)
God knows.
He does.
The Creator is within ❤
im kind
Hey
The message is: Wake up, man! Wake up! We are God. “God became man that man might become God.”
Love this. . . I still don't like the pronoun "He" used exclusively for God. Not sure what a good substitution would be.. . . "S/He" maybe. God is definitely male AND female.
Hi Sherry, thanks for the comment.
sherry Sorry to break the news--Might try reading Bible Old Testament it's really long time source for the world... God is Father and thus (!) MALE.
No mention of Jesus. Therefore no approach to God without him. John 6:44
Amen 🙏!!!! Gospel of John!
He’s a Christian lol.
I Agree and amen but chill my Crusading Brother and put away thy Steel , I may be ignorant of many things but I believe he is being more metaphysical - deep soul search through time and ages within oneself until he finally sees the depths of the soul and the shadows of the mind and can perceive God, Reality, and His soul without the ego applying and planting ideas and perceptions- than just literally spending thousands of years going up and down a hill talking to God .. or something like that
You need holy spirit
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Jesus is our salvation, we don't know the father unless through him. I love you Prince of Peace 🕊️❤
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Beauty is not in the face;
Beauty is a light in the heart
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
Beholder
BEAUTY is the ESCAPE from the UGLY WORLD OF HUMANS ..... only the EARTH has at times BEAUTY , depending on where you are standing ?
The Prophet
Gibran's Masterpiece
Illustrated with twelve full-page drawings by the author
23 September 1923
ON MY TOP SHELF
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How beautiful -- all encapsulated in love and goodness of being a human being. 🙏
God is near, and He never leaves us.
Thanks for your comment! Agreed!
He never arrived....! ..if he landed in your mind...may you enjoy your journey !
11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: 12and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
One of my favorite writers
Hi Sherry, thanks for your comment. He truly is an amazing writer! I hope to do more of his work so stay tuned!
Avi.
@@DanielAvinashVOXDear Sir, since you are endowed with such a Godsent gift of reciting poetry so artfully, ( at times your voice reminds me of Vincent Price), please keep up the good work of bringing new life to old words!
Our father who are in heaven knows that I have missed my father
I adore this poem. Khalil Gibran was a master of words.
Totally agree. His work was not recognised (infact belittled by his Western peers) till after his death.
God said to Man
I CREATED YOU
and
Man said to God
I CREATED YOU.
Poor Mary? What Gabriel did to her
Mohamad too.
As a pantheist he speaks more to all that encompasses. Not to god being a personal god. A personal god only serves a narrow slice. The universe encompasses more than a god person!
As a theist, I admire the fact you've taken time to listen to this narration. Thanks for the comment. It's amazing how starkly different views can coexist in harmony!
Cheers,
Avi.
For it, by it. By and for the forture Or might be a missed carriage.
Then you must inherit of the adoption.
Such a beautiful poem. Such beautiful words, and so beautifully spoken. Thank you for uploading and sharing. Thank you
Thanks Rowley. Glad you enjoyed it.
Is this your narration Daniel? It’s incredibly beautiful and apt. There are so many readings of Khalil Gibran that don’t do the poetry and magic of the text justice. Yours is unmatched for its interpretation and beauty. Bravo. 👏 ❤
Hi Antoinette, yes this is my narration. One of the first I did on TH-cam. I quite cringe listening to it. Not sure why! But thanks for the kind words and encouragement. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Dreadful that any person would offer to enslave themselves to any master or gods.
Thanks for the comment 😊
❤❤❤😍WoW
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Love his work
Thanks for the comment Karen!
there was a time in the early '90's when I sat on a log outside my dwelling my head in my hands despairing and undeserving; suddenly my GOD was sitting next to mearm around my shoulders, pulling me into Him, whispering in my ear: "It's ALL Me!".
It;s ALL Me!"
A burning bush everywhere
Thanks for the comment Stacy.
Beautiful so Nice 🌹🌺 stay Blessed Fully Watched ❤❤
Thanks Mr Khan!
GOD KNOWS YOUR HEARTS
Powerful.
Thanks for your comment! Indeed a powerful piece of work!
As an atheist I can still accept this as god is the entirety of the universe not a being or person
I don't know if you're a pantheist (based on your previous comment) or atheist... but I like your thinking and thanks for taking the time to comment.
What's keeping you an atheist?
He should trust more
I am in an awe of khalils words 🤔🥺
Amen
Beautiful
That's heart touching and brilliant. Thanks for Algorithm and making this Video. Didn't know him. ❤️
Hi sTeVe 42, I'm glad you liked this. He's an amazing poet. Stay tuned. Thank you for supporting this channel. Lots more to come :)
He is a Lebanese writer, fluent in Arabic and English, he traveled when he was young to the United States, and settled there, but he always felt nostalgic for the mountains of Lebanon,
Gibran was one of the most prominent contributors to the Arab literary renaissance in the early twentieth century.
Is, was, and evermore shall be.
Thanks for the comment Sue! Agreed!
Hope you like the poems recently released on Narratives Unforgotten. "When You Are Old" is quite as good one. Do leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Daniel Avinash 😊
Daniel Avinash
Nice channel!
Thank you!
@@DanielAvinashVOX in which book of jibran are these poems?
@@bismazaffarele0278 It part of his works entitled "The Madman".
It's available free online at gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500601h.html
Hope this helps.