الأستاذ محمود محمد طه لأمنا آمنة: هذا بعض ما أرسلتني لأحضره، فهو منك و إليك (صور)

Quote: A bed of roses While Taha was touring Sudan's Muslim shrines, writing to Egyptian leaders, lecturing on shari'a, dazzling his friends with his talk and charming them with his manners, fighting the 'ulama' and becoming an infidel, his family were getting on with life in Rufa'a. Amna Lutfi, with her daughters Sumaya and Asma, along with al-Rabb Biyjud, did not see much of Taha. He came home for funerals, the most inescapable obligation in northern Sudanese society, but he did not return for much else. When Asma saw him, there would be lots of Republicans there. She thought they were his friends, and that they were talking about politics. Living with someone who is trying to be a saint is as thorny as a bed of roses. Amna and the children missed Taha. Although he sent them, and his nephews and nieces, the money they needed, he was not present in their lives, and it made things strange for them. Some people thought the couple had separated. Indeed, one shari'a judge in Rufa'a told Muhammad Lutfi that he would grant Amna a divorce - a difficult thing for a Muslim woman to obtain. Muhammad Lutfi said she did not want one, and Amna rejected the offer with an angry look, and when Taha heard of this talk, he just wanted to know what Amna's view was. He would tell her that he was away collecting her bridewealth, and Amna understood that this bridewealth was mystical knowledge and perfect worship. She did not follow his ideas closely, but she accepted his sense of mission. The two daughters had to wait until they were older to accept it. They did in the end.