Cassam's Life Story

After the resistance against the french in syria fizzled out, cassam was marked for death by the french. And so he fled into british palestine, taking up residence in the port city of hifa. A quickly rose to prominence there as a pious and eloquent teacher. He got a job as an official for the grand mufti, supreme moslem council,. Going around administering islamic marriages in the villages. It not only provided him an income, it gave him an opportunity, a rare opportunity, in british mandate palest as a marriage official.