Al Maghrib. 1st Year, Issue 19, May 31st, 1937.
How poor we are, fellow citizens of Morocco! Our country as a whole is falling down into the abyssal depths of ignorance, misery and decline. Our existence is facing every now and then the devastating impact of destructive elements. We are unable to carry any help in order to preserve what could be saved of it, or to change such or such aspect of the moroccan life which requires an effort of renewal and reform.
Whereever one turns one's head, one sees but disorder and chaos; one feels struck by the adversity and has bad conscience to be like a spectator passively watching so many demonstrations of immorality besides as many signs of decline. One would feel tempted to think that Morocco is voluntarily engaged to put an end to its existence as a nation in the unique purpose of escaping from the constraints and the obligations to assume its responsibilities.
The frame of our families is marked by the ignorance of the most elementary rules of common life; and such an ignorance is characterized by the disorder which reigns whithin every family group as well as by the roughness of its members' behaviour towards each oother.
Beyond these houses, the street is a theater of the most execrable people's behaviour. The moral values which are supposed to prevail in all respected societies, are cruelly failing here, while illeteracy is a common tribute of ignorance affecting almost all the social ranges of the people.
The time has come to implement the principles of a radical social reform which would enable us to change the course and the conditions of our way of life, and take care of their strict application. We must pay attention to the fact that each of us has to be conscious of his dignity and intrinsic worth, whereas the population as a whole must reach an appreciated level of a dignified collective behaviour.
For this purpose, we must, by no means, rely on any public assistance. It is up to our youth to mobilize its potential of energy and fight this ignominy which dishonours us. It is up to the emerging generations to denounce the perversity of our way of behaving that soils our reputation.
The role that should be attributed to our youth to restore the good manners in our society would no doubt contribute to the moral revival of our country. The young generation must be aware that the reforms we urgently need can never be carried out whithout their active and enthusiastic contribution as well as the proof of their firm will to meet our nation's strong aspirations to social and moral aims.
The time has come for a huge social revival, as it is the only way to basically transform our life, to communicate us the spirit of work and help the young people of this country assuming their responsibilities and becoming fully conscious of their values. The latter must know that they were not born to carry out this contemptible life, but to raise their nation up to the highest level it deserves and renew with the prestige of the past.
We invite all the young people of this country to massively answer this call and invest all their energy in implementing this programm of reforms. We formulate the hope that our call will not remain without an echo, as a cry that follows the stream of a river until it gets lost in the broad expanse of the see.
