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The Pearl of Pearls & Bliss of God.
New Jerusalem Katılım Ocak 2026
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THE STATUE
Once there lived a man among the hills who possessed a statue wrought
by an ancient master. It lay at his door face downward and he was not
mindful of it.
One day there passed by his house a man from the city, a man of
knowledge, and seeing the statue he inquired of the owner if he would
sell it.
The owner laughed and said, "And pray who would want to buy that dull
and dirty stone?"
The man from the city said, "I will give you this piece of silver for
it."
And the other man was astonished and delighted.
The statue was removed to the city, upon the back of an elephant. And
after many moons the man from the hills visited the city, and as he
walked the streets he saw a crowd before a shop, and a man with a loud
voice was crying, "Come ye in and behold the most beautiful, the most
wonderful statue in all the world. Only two silver pieces to look upon
this most marvellous work of a master."
Thereupon the man from the hills paid two silver pieces and entered
the shop to see the statue that he himself had sold for one spice of
silver.
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@Kaaabiesi Kahlil Gibran weaves such delightfully witty fables in The Wanderer
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PEACE AND WAR
Three dogs were basking in the sun and conversing. The first dog said
dreamily, "It is indeed wondrous to be living in this day of dogdom.
Consider the ease with which we travel under the sea, upon the earth
and even in the sky. And meditate for a moment upon the inventions
brought forth for the comfort of dogs, even for our eyes and ears and
noses."
And the second dog spoke and he said, "We are more heedful of the
arts. We bark at the moon more rhythmically than did our forefathers.
And when we gaze at ourselves in the water we see that our features
are clearer than the features of yesterday."
Then the third dog spoke and said, "But what interests me most and
beguiles my mind is the tranquil understanding existing between
dogdoms."
At that very moment they looked, and lo, the dog-catcher was
approaching.
The three dogs sprang up and scampered down the street; and as they
ran the third dog said, "For God's sake, run for your lives.
Civilization is after us."
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THE TWO GUARDIAN ANGELS
On an evening two angels met at the city gate, and they greeted one
another, and they conversed.
The one angel said, "What are you doing these days, and what work is
given you?"
And the other answered, "It was been assigned me to be the guardian of
a fallen man who lives down in the valley, a great sinner, most
degraded. Let me assure you it is an important task, and I work hard."
The first fallen angel said, "That is an easy commission. I have often
known sinners, and have been their guardian many a time. But it has
now been assigned me to be the guardian of the good saint who lives in
a bower out yonder. And I assure you that is an exceedingly difficult
work, and most subtle."
Said the first angel, "This is but assumption. How can guarding a
saint be harder than guarding a sinner?"
And the other answered, "What impertinence, to call me assumptious! I
have stated but the truth. Methinks it is you who are assumptious!"
Then the angels wrangled and fought, first with words and then with
fists and wings.
While they were fighting an archangel came by. And he stopped them,
and said, "Why do you fight? And what is it all about? Know you not
that it is most unbecoming for guardian angels to fight at the city
gate? Tell me, what is your disagreement?"
Then both angels spoke at once, each claiming that the work given him
was the harder, and that he deserved the greater recognition.
The archangel shook his head and bethought him.
Then he said, "My friends, I cannot say now which one of you has the
greater claim upon honour and reward. But since the power is bestowed
in me, therefore for peace' sake and for good guardianship, I give
each of you the other's occupation, since each of you insists that the
other's task is the easier one. Now go hence and be happy at your
work."
The angels thus ordered went their ways. But each one looked backward
with greater anger at the archangel. And in his heart each was saying,
"Oh, these archangels! Every day they make life harder and still harder for us angels!"
But the archangel stood there, and once more he bethought him. And he
said in his heart, "We have indeed, to be watchful and to keep guard
over our guardian angels."
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THE DANCER
Once there came to the court of the Prince of Birkasha a dancer with
her musicians. And she was admitted to the court, and she danced
before the prince to the music, the lute, the flute and the zither.
She danced the dance of flames, and the dance of swords and spears;
she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space. And then she
danced the dance of flowers in the wind.
After this she stood before the throne of the prince and bowed her
body before him. And the prince bade her to come nearer, and he said
unto her, "Beautiful woman, daughter of grace and delight, whence
comes your art? And how is it that you command all the elements in your rhythms and your rhymes?"
And the dancer bowed again before the prince, and she answered,
"Mighty and gracious Majesty, I know not the answer to your
questionings. Only this I know: The philosopher's soul dwells in his
head, the poet's soul is in the heart; the singer's soul lingers about
his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body."
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@_iamhabeeb Kindly send your application for extension to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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THE THREE GIFTS
Once in the city of Becharre there lived a gracious prince who was
loved and honoured by all his subjects.
But there was one exceedingly poor man who was bitter against the
prince, and who wagged continually a pestilent tongue in his
dispraise.
The prince knew this, yet he was patient.
But at last he bethought him; and upon a wintry night there came to
the door of the man a servant of the prince, bearing a sack of flour,
a bag of soap and a cone of sugar.
And the servant said, "The prince sends you these gifts in token of
remembrance."
The man was elated, for he thought the gifts were an homage from the
prince. And in his pride he went to the bishop and told him what the prince had done, saying, "Can you not see how the prince desires my
goodwill?"
But the bishop said, "Oh, how wise a prince, and how little you understand. He speaks in symbols. The flour is for your empty stomach;
the soap is for your dirty hide; and the sugar is to sweeten your
bitter tongue."
From that day forward the man became shy even of himself. His hatred
of the prince was greater than ever, and even more he hated the bishop
who had revealed the prince unto him.
But thereafter he kept silent.
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UPON THE SAND
Said one man to another, "At the high tide of the sea, long ago, with
the point of my staff I wrote a line upon the sand; and the people
still pause to read it, and they are careful that naught shall erase
it."
And the other man said, "And I too wrote a line upon the sand, but it
was at low tide, and the waves of the vast sea washed it away. But
tell me, what did you write?"
And the first man answered and said, "I wrote this: 'I am he who is.'
But what did you write?"
And the other man said, "This I wrote: 'I am but a drop of this great
ocean.'"
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BODY AND SOUL
A man and a woman sat by a window that opened upon Spring. They sat
close one unto the other. And the woman said, "I love you. You are
handsome, and you are rich, and you are always well-attired."
And the man said, "I love you. You are a beautiful thought, a thing
too apart to hold in the hand, and a song in my dreaming."
But the woman turned from him in anger, and she said, "Sir, please
leave me now. I am not a thought, and I am not a thing that passes in
your dreams. I am a woman. I would have you desire me, a wife, and the
mother of unborn children."
And they parted.
And the man was saying in his heart, "Behold another dream is even now
turned into mist."
And the woman was saying, "Well, what of a man who turns me into a
mist and a dream?"
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But they cried. "Nay, nay, you are our rightful king. You have made
clean the land of vipers, and you have brought the wolves to naught,
and we welcome to sing our thanksgiving unto you. The crown is yours
in majesty and the sceptre is yours in glory."
Then the king said, "Not I, not I. You yourselves are king. When you
deemed me weak and a misruler, you yourselves were weak and misruling.
And now the land fares well because it is in your will. I am but a
thought in the mind of you all, and I exist not save in your actions.
There is no such person as governor. Only the governed exist to govern
themselves."
And the king re-entered his tower with his crown and his sceptre. And
the elders and the youths went their various ways and they were content.
And each and every one thought of himself as king with a crown in one
hand and a sceptre in the other.
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And the people marvelled, and stillness was upon them, for the king
whom they had deemed the source of their discontent now yielding his
crown and sceptre to them and became as one of them.
Then each and every one of them went his way, and the king walked with
one man to a field.
But the Kingdom of Sadik fared not better without a king, and the mist
of discontent was still upon the land. The people cried out in the
market places saying that they have a king to rule them. And the
elders and the youths said as if with one voice, "We will have our
king."
And they sought the king and found him toiling in the field, and they
brought him to his seat, and yielded unto his crown and his sceptre.
And they said, "Now rule us, with might and with justice."
And he said, "I will indeed rule you with might, and may the gods of
the heaven and the earth help me that I may also rule with justice."
Now, there came to his presence men and women and spoke unto him of a
baron who mistreated them, and to whom they were but serfs.
And straightway the king brought the baron before him and said, "The
life of one man is as weighty in the scales of God as the life of
another. And because you know not how to weigh the lives of those who
work in your fields and your vineyards, you are banished, and you
shall leave this kingdom forever."
The following day came another company to the king and spoke of the
cruelty of a countess beyond the hills, and how she brought them down
to misery.
Instantly the countess was brought to court, and the king
sentenced her also to banishment, saying, "Those who till our fields
and care for our vineyards are nobler than we who eat the bread they
prepare and drink the wine of their wine-press. And because you know
not this, you shall leave this land and be afar from this kingdom."
Then came men and women who said that the bishop made them bring
stones and hew the stones for the cathedral, yet he gave them naught,
though they knew the bishop's coffer was full of gold and silver while
they themselves were empty with hunger.
And the king called for the bishop, and when the bishop came the king
spoke and said unto his, "That cross you wear upon your bosom should
mean giving life unto life. But you have taken life from life and you
have given none. Therefore you shall leave this kingdom never to
return."
Thus each day for a full moon men and women came to the king to tell
him of the burdens laid upon them. And each and every day a full moon
some oppressor was exiled from the land.
And the people of Sadik were amazed, and there was cheer in their
heart.
And upon a day the elders and the youths came and surrounded the tower
of the king and called for him.
And he came down holding his crown
with one hand and his sceptre with the other.
And he spoke unto them and said, "Now, what would you do of me? Behold, I
yield back to you that which you desired me to hold."
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THE KING
The people of the kingdom of Sadik surrounded the palace of their king
shouting in rebellion against him. And he came down the steps of the
palace carrying his crown in one hand and his sceptre in the other.
The majesty of his appearance silenced the multitude, and he stood
before them and said, "My friends, who are no longer my subjects, here
I yield my crown and sceptre unto you. I would be one of you. I am
only one man, but as a man I would work together with you that our lot
may be made better. There is no need for king. Let us go therefore to
the fields and the vineyards and labour hand with hand. Only you must
tell me to what field or vineyard I should go. All of you now are
king."
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