Mengenal Wali Allah di Maroko
There are some of the zawiyas where the shaykhs resisted the invaders and did jihad with weapons or the pen or the tongue. It is not our aim to examine all the mujahidun Awliya here. We simply want to provide some evidence for those who say that not all the Sufi orders submitted to colonialists. These are but a few of the Sufi Shaykhs among those who liberated the Moroccan coasts and resisted the colonialists in the east and west, and some of them were killed as martyrs. Many Shaykhs who were martyred while defending Islam were not mentioned, like the saints of Banu Amghar allied with Sidi Abdellah ibn Sasi who went out in jihad in Azammour when it was occupied by the Portuguese in 947/1532; the Jazulite Shaykh Sidi Aissa Misbahi who as martyred in a battle at Tangier in 928/1513; the Sufi Shaykh Sidi Rahhal al-Kush (d. after 945/1530), the murabit Sidi Abdellah ibn Omar al-Mdaghri (d. 927/1521) who skirmished with the Portuguese near the feitorias of Massa and Agadir; the greatest m...