His return was not the first since 1903; he returned for the first time in 1909, when he got to know his relatives after a long absence, and among those he knew was Nabiha. Sheikh Abd al-Malik was very fanatic and clinging to traditions and wanted his daughter to remain in Lebanon with her future husband, while Amine wanted to move with her to Cairo, where he worked. Thus, Amine returned to Egypt alone and began to secretly correspond with his fiancée through both his younger brother Fouad and Zafer Khalil Al-Mashaalani, who was a friend of Nabiha.[1][2]