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A person of this type says, “If you don’t believe you won’t be safe” in a poem that describes them“returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love and peace…are coming to town.” A person of this type says “Verily you are suspended like scales” between the two title concepts in “On Joy and Sorrow.” A person of this type says “you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest” in a poem that begins“Your (*) soul is a battlefield.” Almitra follows the title character’s ship departing from Orphalese at the end of a book narrated by a person of (10[1])this type named Almustafa. Salman Rushdie wrote a novel inspired (10[1])by the life of one of these people that includes Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta, The Satanic Verses. For 10 points, name these people, one (10[1])of whom titles a collection by Khalil Gibran, such as Isaiah (10[1])and Muhammad. ■END■

ANSWER: prophets [accept The Prophet]
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