بعد إطلاقه من السجن عام ١٩٦٤م، دخلتُ المستشفى لإجراء عملية جراحية، وبعد خروجي، وقد شفاني الله بفضله، أراد أن نقضي بعض الوقت في مزرعة والده. فأخبرتُه بأن البقاء هناك مدةً طويلة يشقّ عليّ، خاصةً مع غياب مَن يعينني على أعمال المنزل والغسيل وغير ذلك. فقال لي: «ينبغي أن تذكر الله وتستغفره أثناء عملك، فتُؤجَر، وأن تصبر وتحتسب الأجر عند الله في الآخرة، وأن تُحسن إلى أقاربك.» فوافقتُ، وسافرنا. وفي أحد الأيام التي تلت سفرنا مباشرةً، أخبرني أنه سيصلي ركعتين حتى يُعدّ الطعام، فكان يصلي باستمرار من التاسعة صباحًا إلى الثانية بعد الظهر. وكلما فتحتُ الباب وجدته يصلي ويبكي. حتى سمعنا طرقًا شديدًا على باب البيت، فإذا هم رجال الأمن. ففتحتُ باب غرفته، وأخبرتُه بأن رجال الأمن هناك، وأن عليه أن يُتمّ صلاته ثم يلاقيهم. ففعل ذلك. حاولوا أن يأخذوه معهم، فطلب منهم أن يتركوه حتى يغتسل. ثم سألني إلحاحًا أن أعطيه مصحفًا، ولم يكن عندي إلا المصحف الذي كتبتُ فيه رسالةً صغيرةً إلى أحمد [ابنه] وكنتُ أنوي أن أهديه إياه. فوعدني بأنه سيعود إليّ ولو احتاج إلى الذهاب إلى المريخ والعودة، فأعطيتُه إياه.
After his release in 1964, I went into hospital for an operation, and after coming out, and being cured by Allah's bounty, he wanted us to spend some time on his father's farm. So I informed him that staying there for a long time was hard on me, especially without a helper to help me with household duties, washing and other things. So he said to me: ‘You should make dhikr and seek forgiveness during your work, and you will be rewarded, and have patience and Ihtisaab (looking to your reward in the Hereafter), in being good to your relatives.’ So I agreed, and we travelled. And on one of the days straight after our travel, he informed me that he would pray two rak`ahs, (units of prayer) until the food was prepared, and he continuously prayed from nine in the morning to two in the afternoon. Whenever I opened the door, I would find him praying and crying. Until we heard a bang at the door of the house, and found it was the security services. So I opened the door to his room, and informed him that the security services were there and that he should finish his prayer and see them. And he did just that. They tried to take him with them, but he asked them to leave him until he could make ghusl. He then asked me extensively for a Mushaf [copy of the Qur'aan], but I did not have except the one which I had written a small message to Ahmad [the son] and was going to give him as a present. So he promised me that it would return to me even if it had to go to Mars and back, so I gave it to him.
ثم ازداد ظلم النظام شدةً. فبعد أن نُقلتُ من مديرةِ مدرسةٍ إلى مدرّسةٍ، ثم من محافظةٍ إلى أخرى، ثم من التدريس العادي إلى ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة، بدأت أجهزة الأمن في فترة سجنه الأولى حملتها لسجني. حتى حقّقوا في النهاية ما أرادوه، فسُجنتُ ستة أشهر في سجن القناطر، قضيتها في نزيفٍ متواصل، ثم أُجريت لي بعد ذلك عمليةٌ لاستئصال الرحم. ولم أحضر إلا النطق بالحكم. فلما رآني على حالي الضعيفة، أخبرني أنه لم يكن يعلم بسجني، حتى مزّقت الكلاب ثيابه، فأرسل إلى البيت بثيابٍ، فأعطى أحمدُ الحارسَ ثيابًا قديمةً حتى لا يسرقوا الثياب الجديدة. ولما رآها عَلِم أنني لستُ في البيت.
Then the oppression of the regime began to increase in harshness. For after I had been transferred from a headmistress to a teacher, then from one province to another, then from normal teaching to special needs, in his first period of imprisonment, the security services started their campaign to imprison me. Until eventually, they achieved what they wanted and I was imprisoned for six months in Al-Qanaatir prison, which I spent in constant nazeef [bleeding], until I had an operation to remove my womb after that. And so, I did not attend except the sentencing. When he saw me in my weak state, he informed me that he did not know of my imprisonment, until the dogs had ripped his clothes, and he had sent for clothes from the house, and so Ahmad gave the guard old clothes so that they would not steal the new clothes. And when he saw them, he knew that I was not in the house.
في هذا الوضع المؤلم وُلدت ابنة لأختي، فطلب مني أحمد أن أرزقه بأخت، وكان يلحّ ويبكي، فقلت له: "يجب أن يكون والدك هنا." وعندما ذهبنا لزيارة والده، ظل يبكي ويجذبه قائلاً: "تعال معي يا أبي إلى البيت، وأمي تستطيع أن ترزقني بأخت. من يمنعك؟ هو؟" وأشار إلى الحارس، "لا تخف منه، سأضربه، وأنت تعال معي." حتى أبكاني، ثم أبكى الحراس بعد ذلك.
In this painful situation was when my sister bore a daughter, and Ahmad asked me to have for him a sister, and he would nag and cry, so I said: ‘Your father has to be here.’, and when we went to visit his father, he kept crying and pulling him saying: ‘Come with me father to the house, and mum can have a sister for me. Who is stopping you? Him?’ and he pointed to the guard, ‘Don't be scared of him, I will hit him, and you come with me.’, until he made me cry and subsequently made the guards cry.