 He then sent his two sons Ahmad al-Araj and Mohammed Amghar (later called Mohammed ash-Sheikh) to Fez, where they established themselves as teachers of religion and literature and exhorted the sultan to raise a full jihad in the south.The Wattasid sultan Abu Abdallah al Burtugali gave them full permission to carry out their jihad in the Sous.This enabled the Saadians to transform their moral authority into a military authority.