ALMAGHRIBIA — broadcast
20260920 030000 UTC
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[00:00:07] Al-Zemmour and Al-Jaida to Essaouira, where
[00:00:10] the Amazighs, Phoenicians,
[00:00:12] by collective revenge on Arabs, and Europeans lived.
[00:00:15] However, the features of this cosmic city remained
[00:00:19] Moroccan. People talked about Dar Sultan
[00:00:22] and about the ancient city through
[00:00:24] a fenced area where it had lost its luster, and regained its brilliance
[00:00:28] there to give it
[00:00:37] We did not find any documented historical
[00:00:45] strength. And where the archipelago of Essaouira stands on the shores of the
[00:00:49] In turbulent periods of Atlantic Ocean with pride and greatness, commercial
[00:00:52] movement connected Morocco to the most prominent European cities from
[00:00:56] London to Amsterdam.
[00:01:00] Despite the Portuguese
[00:01:03] of their ancestors, they do not colonial rule over the city, it left, and the city of
[00:01:06] winds and seagulls remained with its architectural
[00:01:08] and cultural heritage and its people who
[00:01:11] losses belong to different days the hardship of traveling on heavenly religions, from Judaism to
[00:01:14] Christianity
[00:01:16] with the French. This and Islam.
[00:01:22] They lived among themselves throughout history in coexistence
[00:01:24] and harmony, and left to the whole world lessons
[00:01:28] and examples that are remembered today. In a time of division,
[00:01:41] a quick tour of Asilah, where the Portuguese
[00:01:44] colonizers lived,
[00:01:47] you will find kasbahs, forts, and castles, and even some
[00:01:52] in the morning, an early neighborhoods that tell you the past with their thick walls
[00:01:54] and ramparts that did not bend despite the destruction and bombardment with the most powerful weapons
[00:01:58] that were skillfully made in that era
[00:02:01] to adapt to their
[00:02:05] colonial ambitions.
[00:02:08] Despite this widespread presence in a geographical area from
[00:02:11] the north to the south, the Portuguese and Spanish colonization did not
[00:02:16] and destruction, while last long in the coastal cities.
[00:02:19] And when it wanted to test the immunity of the Moroccan state, unforgettable
[00:02:22] battles took place, perhaps the most prominent of which was the Battle
[00:02:26] of Wadi al-Makhazin in the year 1508.
[00:02:32] In which the Moroccans triumphed over the Portuguese
[00:02:35] and stopped their advance, so this battle remains
[00:02:39] immortal in the memory of Moroccans
[00:02:41] and to confirm that the Moroccan state possesses the pillars
[00:02:45] of stability and protection of nations from any enemy
[00:02:48] lurking for those who have come to occupy a prominent international position among
[00:02:52] nations.
[00:02:55] Despite the colonial powers' brutalization of the people of the colonies,
[00:02:59] Morocco today lives with its tangible and intangible heritage
[00:03:02] , a richness not known by other nations. The colonization left behind
[00:03:06] a cultural and architectural heritage that is reflected
[00:03:09] in most Moroccan cities that today blend
[00:03:12] Amazigh, European, and Arab-Islamic heritage.
[00:03:18] due to the factors of time
[00:03:57] of Taddelt, which administratively
[00:04:12] After the announcement of the French protectorate
[00:04:35] and equipment.
[00:04:43] Christian attacks on
[00:06:01] history, Zawiyas were more than just spiritual sanctuaries
[00:06:05] and ancient schools for cultivating Sufi sheikhs
[00:06:08] and scholars of Islamic sciences.
[00:06:11] They were also
[00:06:15] spiritual strongholds for those seeking inner
[00:06:19] peace and seeking knowledge from various religious and worldly
[00:06:22] fields. They were also strongholds
[00:06:26] for resistance and preparing mujahideen to stand against
[00:06:29] those who coveted any part of their
[00:06:32] homeland.
[00:06:35] These special places have preserved through time the echoes
[00:06:38] of centuries of whispered prayers and the sounds of worship.
[00:07:00] Social and economic transformations and cultural
[00:07:03] influences in the shadow of imposed globalization, along with the challenges
[00:07:07] of modern life, have led to a decrease
[00:07:10] in the influence of these places. To the extent that some of them have ceased to exist,
[00:07:14] and others have been marginalized from societal issues and completely
[00:07:18] isolated from cultural and civilizational
[00:07:20] action.
[00:07:24] Time passed and changed, so some of them became ruins
[00:07:29] others still remain beacons of knowledge, embracing
[00:07:32] students of knowledge with open arms and hosting
[00:07:35] every guest with hospitality if the guest
[00:07:38] needs a place.
[00:07:41] The fragility of the buildings and their dangerous location at the mercy
[00:07:44] of the rugged terrain, combined with the weakness of the helping hands
[00:07:48] in times of emergency, left many of these sacred shrines
[00:07:52] vulnerable to cracks and vulnerable to natural disasters
[00:07:55] and their sudden
[00:07:57] destructive eruptions. The library is written
[00:08:01] and issued.
[00:08:04] Nothing. These are places whose virtue is undeniable.
[00:08:07] That essential element and main
[00:08:11] entrance through which it supervises excavations
[00:08:14] of Morocco's past in all its aspects.
[00:09:25] over Morocco and the subsequent signing of the Treaty of Fez in
[00:09:28] 1912, French forces began to penetrate
[00:09:32] into the remote areas of Morocco and gradually
[00:09:35] occupy them.
[00:09:38] So Jihad began in all Moroccan regions to resist the occupier.
[00:09:42] And soon, heroic resistance leaders appeared in every
[00:09:46] region.
[00:09:50] Following in the footsteps of the Zawiya sheikhs since ancient times in repelling the Iberian
[00:09:55] Moroccan lands, a Sufi religious leader appeared in the Great
[00:09:59] Eastern Atlas who pledged to carry the banner of Jihad
[00:10:02] against the French invasion at the end of
[00:10:06] 1914. Ali Amhaouch managed to inflict
[00:10:10] several defeats on the French army, taking advantage of the effects of World
[00:10:14] War I and its impact on the French military
[00:10:17] capabilities. After his death in
[00:10:20] 2019, his eldest son, El-Mekki
[00:10:24] Amhaouch, took over the struggle and worked to mobilize
[00:10:27] and awaken his community against the danger
[00:10:30] of occupation. He, along with his brothers El-Mehdi,
[00:10:34] El-Mourtada, and El-Mostafa Aitm Haouch, and fighters from many tribes,
[00:10:37] fought fierce wars
[00:10:38] to confront the French
[00:10:41] colonizer. In addition to the Aït Ouchchen tribe, the Aït Skhmane,
[00:10:45] Aït Atta, Aït Hand, and Zayyan tribes, and Aït Ishaq united to immortalize in Moroccan
[00:10:49] history one of the largest and most famous anti-colonial
[00:10:52] battles of that period. It was
[00:10:55] the immortal epic known as the Battle
[00:10:57] of Tizi n'Tazizaout.
[00:11:01] During our exploratory journey to Midelt province, as we delved
[00:11:05] into its sections with rugged terrain, we came across a small
[00:11:08] village immersed in its isolation amidst its wasteland, without
[00:11:11] any basic amenities. It appears from
[00:11:15] those who live there to be called Thalaâb,
[00:11:18] and it belongs to the municipality of Sidi Yahya Ou Youssef, which is affiliated with the administrative district
[00:11:21] of Tinfif.
[00:11:31] In the vicinity, faint traces of one of Amhiwash's zawiyas
[00:11:34] appear, one of the willows, weak,
[00:11:37] with collapsing walls, until only the ruins of its walls
[00:11:41] and the remains of its doors and its crumbling towers
[00:11:44] remain moment
[00:11:46] by moment.
[00:11:52] We did not stay long in the hamlet before we met the witnesses.
[00:13:22] Sidi Ali was there, so that there would be no
[00:13:26] confusion for
[00:13:30] the listener or viewer, for
[00:13:34] Sidi Ali Amhaouch, about whom we are speaking, is not Sidi Ali Amhaouch
[00:13:37] whose tomb overlooks Ait Taghsalin or
[00:13:40] who is in the area called Tintaghsalin.
[00:13:43] He is Sidi Ali Amhaouch who is
[00:13:45] in the Taghsalin area or Tintaghsalin
[00:13:49] is the grandfather of Sidi Ali Amhaouch, about whom we are speaking,
[00:13:53] and the origin
[00:13:55] of the Ali family dates back to Sidi Yahya and Youssef
[00:13:59] and his son Sidi El Mekki El Mahachi, who
[00:14:02] was the leader of the Battle of Azizaout, and he descended with three
[00:14:06] caravans, Si Moulay Hamdou El Hassan El Sebai, urging
[00:14:09] Jihad, and he praised in his writings Sidi
[00:14:13] Ali Amhaouch, who belongs in his origins to Sidi Yahya
[00:14:16] and Youssef, and the tomb of Sidi Ali Amhaouch is located in the area
[00:14:22] belongs to the region of
[00:14:25] Beni Mellal, and three caravans to the
[00:14:28] region of
[00:14:34] ruins that add to the heart's ailment sorrow for those who once had
[00:14:37] a guiding light and a protective
[00:14:39] homeland.
[00:14:42] We stood questioning her, and it was as if her state of being answered, speaking of
[00:14:46] the epic of Tazizaoute and of the types of sacrifices
[00:14:49] and heroic deeds, and the fierce battles between the Atlas warriors and the armies
[00:14:53] of the occupier, who suffered great losses and heavy
[00:14:56] casualties in lives
[00:15:00] Despite the military imbalance between the two sides, the fighting
[00:15:04] spirit of the resistance fighters was not broken.
[00:15:07] The defeat forced them, with their limited
[00:15:10] capabilities, to circumvent the usual rules of war
[00:15:13] used by the enemy to overcome their weakness, so they decimated
[00:15:17] dozens of its soldiers and officers and endured the French
[00:15:20] siege in their rugged mountainous region,
[00:15:23] and defended with honor,
[00:15:27] hunger and thirst, refusing
[00:15:29] to surrender.
[00:15:32] And as is the custom of the Western occupier in its brutal expansionist wars
[00:15:36] throughout history, it uncovered another face it hides behind
[00:15:39] the mask of protection and claims of concern for the future of peaceful
[00:15:42] peoples. So it resorted to its barbaric methods that it usually employs
[00:15:46] in occupying peoples
[00:15:49] the locals through their extermination by bombardment with
[00:15:52] planes and dropping bombs on houses, markets,
[00:15:55] and gatherings, relying on that to tighten
[00:15:59] the siege on them to force them to surrender
[00:16:02] and occupy their land by force, no matter what
[00:16:05] the cost.
[00:16:09] And under this escalation of pressure and threat, the lives of
[00:16:12] many residents of all ages were lost.
[00:16:15] And the horror of this cruel
[00:16:18] inhuman aggression left no choice for leader El Mekki Amhaouch
[00:16:22] but to abandon the armed struggle and surrender in the end
[00:16:26] to spare the lives of the residents and the led
[00:16:28] legions.
[00:16:32] The people performed well in the incident of Tazizaoute and were known
[00:16:35] afterwards for their good deeds.
[00:16:38] The French occupier used all available means
[00:16:41] to destroy everything that could
[00:16:44] help the resistance fighters inflict
[00:16:48] on the enemy.
[00:16:52] So even these people, whether Sidi
[00:16:55] Tayeb or Maashi or Sidi bin Hamad
[00:16:59] or all the resistance fighters or Iskenti
[00:17:02] and also Sidi Mohamed El Hajj El Telfrawti
[00:17:06] and also Sidi Mohamed El Hajj El Imam and all those who resisted,
[00:17:09] it is enough that they resisted and defended their land and their
[00:17:13] homeland.
[00:18:07] A reconciliation that greatly affected its memory and changed
[00:18:11] its geography and left a deep transformation in its historical
[00:18:14] course.
[00:18:17] Due to a sudden factor similar to occupation in its
[00:18:20] violence, from the action of rampant nature affecting the stability
[00:18:23] of places, a torrential flood resulting from seasonal
[00:18:26] rains struck the building of the zawiya adjacent to the Aghrout valley,
[00:18:29] sweeping away its courtyard and destroying its foundations
[00:18:33] and what it carried of arches
[00:18:34] and roofs.
[00:18:38] And its library, with its treasures of manuscripts and precious
[00:18:42] rare books, was not spared from being swept away, as the storm buried them
[00:18:45] under piles of rubble.
[00:18:48] There was a large library under its ownership,
[00:18:52] but
[00:18:55] and neglect,
[00:18:58] it was lost with the floods that came to
[00:19:02] three caravans, and the remains of the zawiya are still there
[00:19:06] today.
[00:20:51] And the zawiya of Sidi Ali Amhaouch, after it
[00:20:55] was destroyed by the floods. After the death
[00:20:58] of Sidi Ali Amhaouch and the Battle of Tazizaout, it turned into
[00:21:01] an area called today Moulay Ahmad, and the zawiya is still there
[00:21:05] standing, and those who arrive
[00:21:09] and wayfarers are fed there.
[00:21:12] And they still preserve all those
[00:21:15] rituals and matters related to the Darqawiyya
[00:21:18] Zawiya, to which the people of that
[00:21:22] region belong.
[00:21:28] And from one source to another, we headed to the Zawiya of Moulay Ahmad,
[00:21:32] hoping to penetrate the veil of silence that envelops it, so that we may gain
[00:21:36] insight into what it may conceal
[00:21:38] from
[00:21:40] that which barely reveals its abode to the public behind the brick curtain that conceals
[00:21:44] its seclusion on the summit of Mount Moulay Ahmad and further enhances
[00:21:47] its hiddenness from view.
[00:24:52] The grave is when the grave is beautiful.
[00:25:54] When Hassan Amhaouch and his family came to this place
[00:25:57] from distant and wild lands, they had already visited the shrine of Moulay Ahmad,
[00:26:01] the sheikh of the zawiya.
[00:26:40] sources about the life of this scholar, other than what
[00:26:43] the people of the region transmit about his only piece of information
[00:26:47] regarding his Ouazzani
[00:26:47] origin.
[00:26:52] The ignorance of the residents about the biography of Moulay Ahmad does not mean at all their ignorance
[00:26:56] or lack of interest in the history of their region
[00:26:58] and its prominent figures.
[00:27:02] The memory of Tazizaoute, which marked the history
[00:27:05] miss the seventh of September every year,
[00:27:09] enduring for a few
[00:27:12] foot to where the battle took place, face to face
[00:27:19] inherited tradition is considered by the guests of the place
[00:27:22] a commemoration of its glorious memory so that the grandchildren
[00:27:25] do not forget their past
[00:27:27] with the death of the
[00:27:29] ancestors. During the three days of the season, the attendees
[00:27:32] are engaged in prayer, Quran recitation,
[00:27:35] and prophetic invocations and remembrance. And they do not miss
[00:27:39] narrating the stories of the heroic martyrs
[00:27:41] as a reminder of their heroism
[00:27:49] and courage. Seven
[00:27:54] nap at
[00:27:59] home.
[00:28:02] A distance
[00:28:03] of a