السودان هو مركز دائرة الوجود

Quote: A Woman-Liberating Movement For most of the remaining years of his life, Al-Ustaz confined himself to guiding the activities of the organization bythen known as the “Republican Brothers” which included a growing number of women members. Both male andfemale members of the organization continued to propagate the Second Message of Islam despite harassment by some offcials and members of the security forces. Since it was crucial to Al-Ustaz Mahmoud that he should practice what hepreached, he tried to establish a community, which applied, as far as possible, the main tenets of his vision of Islam. Asa small community within Sudanese society, the Republicans were unable to implement the full scope of their beliefsin the Organization of the Sudanese State, but they strove to lead their personal lives and organize their owncommunity in accordance with those beliefs. In particular, the community largely succeeded in applying the principlesof equality between men and women, without discrimination on grounds of sex. Women members participated fully inall the group's activities, and they were often leaders of activist groups on university campuses and in public parks andstreet corners- a highly controversial practice in the Sudanese patriarchal society. This was such a hallmark of themovement that when the leadership of the organization was detained without charge in mid-I983, four women wereamong their number. The group’s practice in relation to contracting marriage is illustrative of the members'determination to implement their reform in light of the prevailing social customs.