From the time I could remember, I mostly saw sadness and a concern over my mothers face. She, who should not be so old looking in her age, looked about ten years above her age.
She would spend time thinking about matters, thinking very deep. I used to wonder what made her so old so soon…
She told me that she never liked sins even from her childhood and when ever a sin was thought of, some how Allah took her heart away from it. She once told me, [before I was born], her friends who were women of her age come to take to her to the cinema and she would go there.
Return of the Pharoah relates how, falsely accused of conspiring to kill Jamal Abd An Nasr, the author was arrested and imprisoned. While awaiting trial she was subjected to the most terrible and inhumane torture. This book describes in a captivating manner the ordeal which this Muslim activist went through in the notorious Egyptian prisons. This book describes in a captivating manner the ordeal which this Muslim activist went through in the notorious Egyptian prison. Instead of dampening her enthusiasm for Islam and the Islamic movement, the afflictions and savageries in Nasir's prisons increased her commitment and dedication to the cause of Islam. This autobiographical work can be considered a historic document in that its author was an active witness to one of the most volatile periods of Egypt's contemporary history.
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