In the previous two episodes of the book “Dr.. Biography of Tawhida Abd al-Rahman – the first female doctor in the Egyptian government,” we dealt with the beginning of the biography from birth, passing through entering the Sunni school, then joining Kitchener’s mission to travel to England with 5 of her colleagues, including Helena Sidarus, to study medicine, in addition to what the book presented From revealing Tawheed Abdel’s refusal of English nationality, and the full details of the prophecy of the Indian clairvoyant, as well as our discussion of her role as a pioneer in daily life, and the presence of Gamal Abdel Nasser at her daughter’s wedding.
How was the prophecy of the Indian fortune teller fulfilled?
In this concluding episode of the book “Dr.. Biography of Tawheeda Abd al-Rahman, the first female doctor in the Egyptian government,” edited by journalist Moamen al-Muhammadi, how did the prophecy of the Indian clairvoyant come true, leading to her death? Their effort is based on the efforts she made with her husband in bringing them up and raising them and bringing out the best in them wherever they go, as much as he can, and according to what he likes.
The eldest daughter was Huda, and she was the one we talked about in the previous episode, and she passed away as soon as she learned of the news of the mother’s passing. The second was Samiha, then Safinaz, then Mahmoud Famaima, then Dr. Fouad Fammad, and all of them obtained academic degrees, and this success achieved by the children is a continuation of the struggle of this family. And the follower of the path of her siblings is Moufida Abdel Rahman, whom they used to pamper her with “motherhood.”
Moufida Abd al-Rahman obtained her “general secondary” baccalaureate from the Sunni school in the Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood in 1934. Her early marriage in 1933 distracted her from studying medicine, which she became fond of like her sister, Dr. Tawheeda, and she persuaded Moufida to study law at Fouad I University, Cairo University, where she joined in 1935 and graduated in 1939. At that time, entering the university was prohibited for a married woman, but Dr. Muhammad Kamel intervened. Morsi Pasha and Sanhouri Pasha, to be the first mother and wife to enter the university.
So that Moufida Abdel Rahman graduated and became the first Egyptian woman to work as a lawyer, the first female lawyer to be registered before the Court of Cassation, and the first woman to join the committees to amend laws, and she became the president of the International Federation of Women Lawyers and Jurists in Cairo.
Homeland is more precious than children
Is there anything more precious than children?
The answer was present, without hesitation, and practical in the life of Dr. Tawheeda, and this is what the book recounted about how Dr. Tawheeda was an example of the Egyptian mother who knows that the homeland is more precious than ourselves, and although she literally spent her life serving her children, and for the sake of raising them and their interest, it was not her time, her money, or Her health, pleasure, nights, and days are more precious to her than her children, but at the time of goodness, the country was more precious.
-When the glorious October 1973 war broke out, in which we crossed the canal and regained our land and dignity, two of the doctor’s sons were officers in the armed forces and she always supported her and their colleagues.
Her son, Muhammad, remembers that orders were issued to them on the day of the war to go to their homes to bring supplies needed in the field. He was not married at the time, he was staying with her. He got in his jeep and headed home. When he got up to the apartment and she opened the door for him, I was surprised by him standing in front of her. Her automatic response was: Why are you here? Your place is over there at the front, so go.
After that, he learned that she was looking for the armed forces’ cars. She used to go down to Grobi in Heliopolis, where the armed forces’ cars heading to Suez and Ismailia would meet and support the soldiers and officers.
Dr. Tawheeda Abdel-Rahman passed away on the tenth of September 1974, after a long journey full of successes at home and at work, so that the name of Tawheeda Abdel-Rahman was repeated by generations as the first Egyptian female doctor.
