Morocco's PJD founder dead at 87

2008-09-29

Morocco's Islamist Justice and Development (PJD) party founder Abdelkrim El-Khatib died Saturday at the age of 87, MAP reported. El-Khatib, who was the first president of the Moroccan Parliament in 1963, created the PJD in 1996 and served as its secretary-general until 2004. Today, the party is the second biggest political group in the Moroccan parliament.

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صالح مجدول لحريزي Posted 2008-09-30

In the name of God the most gracious the most merciful. “Every soul shall taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the resurrection day; then whoever is removed far away from the fire and is made to enter the garden he indeed has attained the object; and the life of this world is nothing but a provision of vanities”. God says the truth. “O soul that art at rest! Return to your Lord, well-pleased, well-pleasing, so enter among My servants, And enter into My garden”. God says the truth. “Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah, of them some have fulfilled their obligations and some of them are still waiting, but they have never changed”. God is the greatest. God is the greatest. God is the greatest. “Whatsoever is on it will perish. And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will remain forever. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both deny”. What can I say about this sad event in our parent, father, our lord, master, our assister who helped us to the day on which we will meet God. Oh Lord have mercy, liberate from the tightness of tombs and make him a neighbour of your prophet Mohamed, the companions, the guided and wise Caliphates Abu Bakr, Omar, Othmane and Ali. Oh Lord don’t spare us his satisfaction and reward. Oh Lord protect his respectable family with your care most merciful. Our sorrow is common in the sad event. I present my condolences for the death of this pillar, believing Muslim, concerned about his nation, religion and king, I present warmest condolences to his majesty the king Mohamed VI, to Mr Housni Benslimane and to all the family of the dead man. I ask God to bestow on them patience. From God we are and to God we shall return. My father, the late Mohamed Ben Driss Lahrizi, used to work in the clinic of Dr Abdlekrim El-Khatib in the fifties. The clinic was located in Garage El Alam on Mediouna road. We used to live in Bloc El Koudia, Bloc 1 no 73. My brother Ahmed Lahrizi studied with Housni Benslimane in Lyaute high school at Avenue 2 Mars which is called now Mohamed V. We learned the good values, fine education, reliance on God and on ourselves. My father didn’t apply for a Resistant Card. He never stretched his hand to anyone except God. We are living a good life, praise be to God. We never applied for the permit of a taxi or bus. We were taught by our master and guide to rely on God, well-behaviour to others and remember God a lot. Oh Lord, protect our king Mohamed VI for as a refuge for his people.

SIMO Posted 2009-05-22

At best he is a fanatic. The political legacy he left Morocco and the Moroccans with will leave him unquestionably ranked with the garbage of history. I know, I know, "Speak only good of the dead," but when I see the evil that he did directly and indirectly to the other members of the umma and Maghreb society, I cannot help but say the truth, how ever difficult it may be.

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