Maybe not all of Pare’s students and other people know and understand about him. But They know that he could speak nine languages and always be the main topic in Mr Kalend’s speech in every opening’s programs.
Kiai Ahmad Yazid Thohir showed us that we can’t ban and confine santri when studying another language. Never think that santri needs to learn Arabic only. And then we ask them “What will you do if you study another language? That’s not urgent and useless”. Nothing is useless in this world. Because our God, Allah SWT, never create something useless. Everything is useful. If we still think that something is futile, simply because we haven’t known the function of that one.
