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“We have passed from the battle of the lesser jihad to that of the greater jihad.”
Source: Throne speech, Rabat, 18 November 1955
Context Two days after returning from the exile France imposed in 1953, as independence neared, he turned Moroccans from the fight against colonial rule to building the state.
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