He later began to teach at the Zitouna and married first Douja Belkhodja and then Habiba Ben Jaafar, both daughters of notable Tunisian religious families of Turkish origin.

[1][2] He was chosen as chancellery secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he spent several years, marking this still nascent service within the Makhzen.

Rising through the ranks, Djaït was head of the state section of justice when the French protectorate of Tunisia was established.

It was only natural for Naceur Bey to place his trust in him as Minister of the Pen and then Grand Vizier in 1908, with the consent of France.

He thus had to face the Jellaz Affair in 1911 and the Tunis tram boycott in 1912 but failed to calm the violent waves of repression and arrests that followed.