In 869/1465, two answers competed for Morocco's soul. Zarruq offered the corrected shaykh — authority verified by law, earned through discipline, revocable by scholarly judgment. Al-Jazūlī offered prophetic blood — sharīfian nasab as the isnād that no critique could reach, the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt as cosmological portrait, and a dawla already constituted. Morocco chose. This article is about what it chose — and what it could not abandon.