Inheritor of Wisdom
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
He was ‘rebellious’ since childhood. While other students wore sarongs, Wahid Hasyim used pants everywhere. He did not go to formal schools, but he was fluent in several foreign languages. He was predicted to be a great man since he was an infant.
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The Ascetic Wanderer
He never attended formal school but he was a polyglot. It started from personal austerity.
The sound of a typewriter was always heard every night from a room at the end of the Islamic boarding school complex, Pondok Pesantren Tebuireng, Jombang, East Java. It was 1934, and typewriters were still scarce and luxurious.
Wakeful santri (students) were disturbed. But who dared to complain? The one doing the typing was Abdul Wah
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