from a thread at online-literature.com/forums
I want to make some comments regarding the movie "Monsieur Ibrahim", starring Omar Sharif, which will be a
At various times throughout the movie, the young boy questions Omar Sharif about this or that matter, and Omar will answer by saying "because I know what is in my Qu'ran.
At the end of the movie, the boy opens the Qu'ran to find a pressed, dried rose. We naturally assume that Omar Sharif is alluding to some verse or teaching in the words of the Qu'ran. We never suspect that he his refering to something else with is literally inside the physical book, pressed between the pages.