…she wrote in a letter to the poet Thorkild Bjørnvig: “The smallest fragment of a gold coin, even dust scraped from it, is always gold. But a corner snipped off a hundred kroner note, even half of it – is nothing, of less value than a piece of white paper, which at least you can write on.â€
The Welcome of Beautiful Flowers, Steen Eiler Rasmussen, from Karen Blixen’s Flowers: nature and art at Rungestedlund, Christian Eilers Publishers
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016.
He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there.
14 May, 2023 0:03
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As-salamu ‘alaykum Hajj Abdassamad,
Thank you for sharing this!
How eloquently she put it!
Wa alaikum as-salam,
And I know of no occasion on which Karen Blixen did not speak up for Islam and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Now therein probably lies interesting material for some research and an article.
Abdassamad