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

Quote: Pif-Paf is a domestic insecticide spray. Taha would not kill mosqitoes, flies or scorpions. He liked going to the zoo, and all the local cats knew to come around at mealtimes. The cats might have done well, but Taha's intense morality meant that his family was getting poorer, and the food at home was getting less presentable. He travelled fourth class ("Because there is no fifth class" he said, quoting Gandhi, to anyone who asked why he was slumming it). He gave up his office and kept his possessions in a suitcase. The family had to live like this too. Amna Lutfi had only one tob - an elegant wrap like a sari worn by Muslim women - and her only shoes had a hole. One day she was visiting her neighbour and cut her foot. She was crying, because she was the daughter of a school inspector who did not even have proper shoes. And one of her guests turned up her nose at the thin mulah stews she produced for her vegetarian husband. Taha would tell her that valuing your own humanity meant that you do not own much. Amna took some time to be convinced, but Taha's daughters, and his niece Batoul Mukhtar, were eager to hear about Taha's ideas. Eventually Amna gave up her hopes for material prosperity and pretty frocks, and she accepted Taha's values .