Tok Kenali or his real name Muhamad Yusof bin Ahmad Al-Kenali was born in 1868 at Kubang Kerian, Kota Bahru. His father passed away when Tok Kenali was 5 years old. He started learning – to read and write the Al-Quran from Tok Lih, his maternal grandfather.
At the age of 10, Tok Kenali moved to Kota Bahru and studied the Arabic language from Ismail. Among Tok Kenali?s teachers were Ahmad ...