Of the evidence on Moroccan Western Sahara
By: Moulay Ali Elmghari
Since childhood, I
do not understand how the Western Sahara is claimed to be not Moroccan. If
Morocco were a country that was not, I would have said ... But Morocco is a
month of knowing fire, and how is it not one of the twins who survived the
crusade against Andalusia? The State of Morocco remained the sole heir to the
Islamic civilization of the West.
It has found
that the "Moroccan state, the central state," which began with
Al-Idrisa and developed and developed by the Almoravids and then the Almohads,
Marinids, Saadian and Alawites increased their area and protect their borders
and serve their citizens for more than a thousand years, And its inhabitants
are Albayba racists and the Moroccan state of the Sahara tribes are sponsored
by the listener.
Bayah was from the
center of the Iberian Peninsula to the River of Senegal, and then after the
fall of Andalusia was from Tangier and Sebta to the river of Senegal, and later
it is said that Western Sahara is not Moroccan.
When Moroccans, Fez,
Tangier, Meknes, Oujda, Sijammassa and others, we rely on many historical,
legal and political arguments. The countries that followed the rule of Morocco
from the 11th century Many of the travelers, geographers and historians who
toured the desert confirmed the geographical, linguistic, cultural, religious,
ethnic, political and economic connection between the central Moroccan state
and the Sahara, and that the Sahrawi tribes were in a relationship of allegiance
with this country Since the Moroccan atheist century AD (stationed, and the
Unitarian and Meridinide and Saadian and Alawites).
Many scholars and
scholars of history and civilizations have attributed the length of the
Moroccan state to five or six consecutive central states, most of which
originated from the Sahara. This association remained strong for more than ten
centuries. "The Sahara created the history of ancient Morocco" , How
can the Sahara not be Moroccan.
The Moroccan Sahara
was a key player in Moroccan political history, where the Moroccan sultans were
keen to strengthen ties between them and their subjects in the desert in
southern Morocco, and appointed their successors to preserve their security and
care for the interests of their inhabitants.
The governors and
successors of the Moroccan sultans took care of the Sahara and the south of
Morocco to build roads and protect them from the bandits, in addition to taking
allegiance, collecting zakat and collecting taxes, drilling wells, building
mosques, angles and other tasks. Between them were major economic interests
through trade convoys and deep diplomatic relations. The Moroccan Sahara was
the bridge between the north of the African continent (central Morocco) and the
Kingdom of Sudan and the rest of the continent.
The result of this
historical narrative is that the Sahrawi and southern Moroccan tribes in the
desert to the Senegal River were in constant contact and continuous interaction
with the Moroccan state politically, economically, religiously, socially,
culturally and spiritually.
This is the slogan
of the immortal Moroccans about their Saharans: "Morocco is in its
deserts, and Sahara is in Morocco."
The constant
historical evidence of the Sahara and southern Morocco was a permanent part of
the central Moroccan state:
- Appointing and
isolating the governors, caliphs and pimps in the desert regions to be from the
Moroccan sultans through correspondence with the sheikhs and elders of the
Saharan tribes in southern Morocco.
- Travel of the
Moroccan sultans to the southern Moroccan and visit the desert tribes and
receive the legitimacy of them.
- The recognition of
the great powers of the European Sahara Sahara remained constant until World
War I, such as Britain, France and Spain, which was confirmed through the
diplomatic corps and treaties between them and the Moroccan state, or in the
agreements between them such as the British-French secret agreement on August
5, 1980, Which stipulated the Moroccan Sakia El Hamra and Wadi El Zahab.
Among the examples
preserved by history, which indicate the eternal and eternal link between
Morocco and its Sahara is the model of the resistance and the mujahideen world,
Sheikh Maaïlin, his heroic resistance to the French and Spanish occupation, and
the great jihad carried out by the Sahrawi tribes against the European occupier
for half a century. Duration of full control over the Moroccan Sahara and
benefit from its wealth and the vulnerability of its loyal people.
In the name of the
Sultan, he resisted the European occupier in the name of the Sultan and ordered
him to fulfill his pledge of allegiance to the sultans of Morocco. He also
sought the economic aid and the military extension of the kings and sultans of
Morocco to push the occupier and preserve the Moroccan Sahara from the greed of
colonial powers at that time. Fourteen visits to meet the kings of Morocco,
most of which was in the city of Marrakech.
In a visit to Sultan
Moulay Hassan I in 1890, Sheikh Sultan Maulayeen addressed the Prophet, saying:
"Moulay Abderrahmane ibn Hisham made you his son, and Sultan Sidi Muhammad
ibn Abd al-Rahman considered you his brother, and I take you as my
father."
"Morocco is
easy and mountain, hills and valleys, sea and ocean, sky and desert. If the
Sahara is not Moroccan, there is no planet called Earth."
