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

Quote: Taha's defence of Minayn bitt Hakim had won the admiration of the people in Rufa'a. His first followers had been young effendis like himself, but he had persuaded a rural constituency of the power of protest. But now, there were plenty of people to criticise him. Amna Lutfi's sister, Sayyida, would tell him to hurry up and get a life. "What's it all leading to," she said, "are you going to stay like that forever?". Taha never answered, not to her or to Amna, but he would smile at her and say "in sha' allah", a phrase which means "God willing", but is also used to evade direct questions, unwelcome requests and invitations . Taha continued his search for true religion and the true self. One of his visitors at this time was from the Badrab, a holy sufi family of the Gezira. He wrote down what Taha was thinking, that the day of God would come on earth, and humanity would reach perfection in the flesh. He spoke a lot about Jesus and prophecy . Some people put stranger words into Taha's mouth: "He said 'I am Jesus, I am Jesus" . No-one close to Taha heard him say that, but he did make one arresting, and well-attested, statement to one of his relatives, Mukhtar 'Ali al-Shaykh: Everything that happened to Jesus will happen to me.