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

Quote: Omdurman, 1951-1955 Clark Gable Marriage made Amna Lutfi's life strange. She wandered the foothills of the Ethiopian highlands in a railway car with al-Rabb Biyjud, and lived in the urban centres of the Nile, borne two children, watched her husband build himself into a nationalist hero and win the support of Rufa'a - and then turn into an eccentric recluse, leaving her to mind the children and her father feed them. In 1951, Taha shaved his beard and moustache, gave up asceticism and went off to Omdurman with the family. He wandered round the shops he had last seen four years before, scrupulously paying off petty debts. Then he went for a trip round Sudan with Awad Lutfi, Amna's brother and an early member of the Republican Party . At the end of Taha's khalwa, his brother died. Shaykh Mukhtar Muhammad Taha, who could mend cars and watches, a carpenter who had set up his own small tariga and technical school in Rufa'a, was struck down in a meningitis epidemic. It was like the one that had swept away shaykh Taha of the Sadigab in 1914. Mukhtar Muhammad Taha had gone through his own khalwa experience to reach his truth, a combination of Sudanese Islam and technical knowledge, and he met his end with fortitude. When he was told that a doctor had been called, he refused to see him. "I know it is the end", he said, and died . But Mukhtar had married five times, and he had children by each wife - a large family, now without a provider. Taha undertook to maintain all the children, bought them a house in Bayt al-Mal in Omdurman and paid for their educations .