01x03 - The Nizari Da'wah

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The Fatimids were consumed by famine

What led them to this?

Sedition!

Are people that hungry!

The people are struggling,

they got used to hunger

when things get worse,

they will eat anything.

Amidst the poverty and disease

and hunger, Al-Sabbah started his dawah

Every star in the sky has a meaning, and

every good vision has an interpretation

-Dawah to the unknown.

-and ask the stranger, he will answer.

for the sake of unknown

Dawah of loyalty to an absent Imam

for a goal that no one knows

It's okay to stay because you're

from the same school of thought

but as for meeting our lord the Imam

-It's refused.

-Al-Sabbah sought

to meet with the Fatimid

Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah

for the allegiance

Hassan faced a major hurdle in his dawah

It's the powerful minister,

Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

Who saved Cairo from the famine

Hassan didn't matter to

Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

who mattered to him was

whoever stands between him

and the Inauguration of his

daughter's husband, Al-Musta'li

as the Caliph after Al-Mustansir’s death

Get off your horse, you jerk widower.

While Hassan was starting his

journey filled with fear and danger

Will you speak or shall

we assume you're a liar

and leave?

or you would lie

and I behead you?

To whom is the Caliphate?

A question that troubles my lady's mind.

May life and destiny be

prolonged with my lady

but she's afraid to become

a silent mother after all these years

after the Caliph's death

and the minister manipulates the Caliphate

Omar Khayyam

investigating and exploring

the meaning of life

Who is more beautiful?

You or your voice?

The minister Nizam Al-Mulk

is working to install the

new sultan on his throne.

"Episode Three"

"Al-Dawah al-Nizariyyah"

What would you say after God granted me

victory and you became at my mercy?

What punishment would you choose, uncle?

I was deceived

your cousins deceived me

and made me turn against you

they abandoned me after all of

them declared their loyalty to me

after my defeat

they showed they were all on your side.

What's your proof?

Between my belly button and belt

there is a message

it contains all their names

and the evidence of their betrayal.

Open it, Nizam Al-Mulk

and say the names of the traitors.

My lord

I think you should be patient

you should first summon

them and then decide.

"Cairo"

"Capital of the Fatimid state"

My lord!

"Al-Mustansir Billah"

"The Fatimid Caliph"

Did you really healed my mother?

For sure, my lord, has

seen her with his own eyes.

-Where are you from?

-From the land of Persia

from the land of Rey.

You traveled all this distance

to see me?

Everything is worth it for

the sake of seeing the Imam.

Whoever sees you, feels as

if they've entered heaven, my lord.

Do you have a specific request?

Pledging to my lord.

That's my request and my life's dream.

A pledge to serve him and his cause

and I pledge to the Imam after him

with my body, spirit, and self

exoteric and esoteric.

-Your pledge is accepted…

-Hassan Al-Sabbah, my lord.

May I ask you a question, my lord?

Ask.

Who is the Caliph after my lord?

My son Nizar.

Thanks be to God.

So, Hassan

how is our dawah doing in your homeland?

The dawah is very widespread in villages,

in the suburbs and everywhere.

It's true that whoever get

caught from us gets tortured

but fidelity in hearts is limitless.

I heard that the Seljuks

have reached the borders of China

They defeated the Crusaders

in the Battle of Manzikert.

Even if they ruled

the whole world, my lord

their dawah is void

and their school of thought is corrupted.

All their victories

are worth nothing.

My lord, Minister Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

This is Hassan Al-Sabbah, Badr.

Our preacher in the lands of Persia

receive and treat him hospitably

he is under my protection

and my satisfaction

he is a man of extraordinary acts

my mother was healed at his hands.

As you command, my lord.

Are you the Sultan's jester?

But this is a demeaning job.

No, it's not demeaning

I'm sitting here because

I am the Sultan's jester

Do you know if I was

the Sultan's sorrow-maker

where would I be?

-Where?

-Nowhere, I would disappear

those who sadden the Sultan disappear.

I am not comfortable.

It's normal.

Do you think this food could be poisoned?

I don't think so.

The Sultan will k*ll us for sure,

but not in such a lowly manner.

Then how would they k*ll us?

Does it matter to you?

Don't be afraid

he knows our troops are outside

I don't think he's that foolish.

The Sultan Malik-Shah's toast.

-The Sultan's toast.

-The Sultan's toast.

All of you are part

of the sultan's household

but my uncle says some

of you were conspiring with him

then you abandoned him

and declared their loyalty to me

-It didn’t happen!

-That's a lie!

-It didn't happen.

-Liar!

-Lie.

-None of us is a traitor.

-Liar.

-No no no.

Don't believe him.

-It didn't happen.

-Liar.

None of us is a traitor.

This letter in my hand

has the traitors' names

sealed

as soon as it is opened

their names will all be revealed

and their fate

will be death!

but…

but…

my Lord, the Sultan, ordered

that the letter must not be opened

and the traitors' names

remain a secret

so that each of them

lives the rest of his

life knowing his truth

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

Like that, my Lord

you will guarantee their loyalty

until the last day of their lives

of course, they now think

I am whispering their names

and they are dying to know

Long live our lord, the Sultan!

and you, uncle

You are the only one who

fought and faced me openly

for that, your fate will be in my hands

in honor to you.

Long live our lord, the Sultan!

For the greatness of the Sultanate

and consolidating the rule

of my Lord, the Sultan

a purge is necessary

a purge

to consolidate our Lord's rule

and reassure the common people

and warn people of influence

against overstepping.

No Sultan's rule can be established

without blood.

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

Should I seek?

Should I start seeking?

Isn't that enough for play, Hussein?

Hady is also playing.

Yeah, but you're the elder.

Alright.

Good boy, now do as I told you.

Letters and numbers!

Yes, the letters and numbers.

-What's wrong?

-How can you ask!

Isn't it apparent on my face?

Am I a man like you who can read faces?

I can tell your state with

just a glance at your back

Something is happening.

‫Nizar is in Alexandria

and Badr Al-Jamali has

been in the palace for two days

something is brewing.

‫People of guarded Egypt

this is a sad day

‫our lord, the great Caliph has passed away

the Imam of the Muslims

and the ‫proof of the Lord of all worlds

‫People of guarded Egypt

this is a sad day

‫our lord, the great Caliph has passed away

the Imam of the Muslims

and the ‫proof of the Lord of all worlds

‫People of guarded Egypt

this is a sad day

‫That's why Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

sent me to Alexandria.

‫The soldiers need

‫enthusiasm to prevent sedition

the number of Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali's

soldiers is considerable.

How could you risk sending messages?

Assume what you're saying didn't happen?

Assume the message fell into

Badr Al-Jamali's hands?

-Assume, Hassan…

-If I kept assuming all these things

‫I wouldn't be able to think

‫I'm only assuming one thing

and trying to achieve it

as quickly as possible.

How do you know that the Caliphate

will go to the younger son, Hassan?

Not to his son Nizar, who is the elder?

and he told you personally

that he's the upcoming Caliph?

I meet Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

a powerful and very stubborn minister

I'm our lord, the Caliph

Al-Mustansir Billah's custodian

a servant of his blessings

and the keeper of his secrets.

He doesn't like Nizar

Certainly, he didn't made Al-Musta'li

his daughter's husband to protect her

To avoid any injustice

or murmuring

or so that suspicions do not arise

our lord's will blocks all paths to evil

everyone knows that

our lord's will is decisive.

Badr Al-Jamali wants to

takes full control of Cairo

through Al-Musta'li.

What's the difference?

Even if that happens?

Both of them are descendants

of our lord, Al-Mustansir

both are his sons and keep his secret.

My will is that whoever sits on

the throne of the Caliphate after me

-My son, Al-Musta'li Billah.

-No no no!

What you're saying is a huge mistake

the secret is always

kept with only one person

even if they're twenty brothers

and as stated by our lord

he said that the secret

lies with Imam Nizar.

They have taken from

us the right of Imamat

and God doesn't approve of injustice.

Although he is the youngest in age

he is the wisest in mind.

Whoever is with us is with the truth

and whoever stands with the truth,

lives with his head held high

He is most eligible to rule the Muslims

with the sword of justice

and his eminence.

The injustice of Imam Nizar

it's the door that God

opened for Hassan Al-Sabbah.

-This is a forged will.

-The Caliph is our lord, Nizar.

Return to your places, gentlemen.

It's Hassan who stood by

the absent and oppressed Imam.

He won't pledge allegiance to a traitor

and a traitor of the covenant.

his head should be cut off.

The story starts all over again

a new absent Imam

a new oppressed one stirs

the emotions of the whole world

a new covenant

a new dawah

Al-Dawah al-Nizariyyah

and there's only one person

links them with the absent Imam

only one.

Who's your Imam?

Imam Nizar, peace be upon him

as I heard from my lord, Al-Mustansir,

may God have mercy on him.

Your Imam has been k*lled.

Who's your Imam?

You have one chance

before your head is cut off

to say only one word

my Imam is Al-Musta'li Billah

peace be upon him.

My Imam is Nizar, peace be upon him

even if he is k*lled

the absent Imam will return

Fine.

You've chosen.

Not yet.

k*lling the Imam and me don't mean that

the dawah for Imam Nizar has been silenced

there are 300 Advocate for the truth

who trust me more than themselves

my messages have reached them already

the oppression of our Master Hussein

will be renewed in the Persian lands

and our Master Nizar.

Fine

bargain for your life

send messages of trajectory

correction and repentance.

And be a disbeliever and traitor?

Oh man!

A living disbeliever and traitor

or a dead believer?

What does it ensure for me?

A ship to take you to Morocco

and there, you disappear forever.

It's quite possible, to get

k*lled after I send the messages

Betrayal of covenant

and will is your nature.

The pigeon flies with the movement

of the ship that will take you away

Get home safely!

You didn't stay long with us!

This is more than the accommodation fee.

A favor worth more than gold to me.

What's favor?

The ship will leave from Alexandria

and the pigeons will fly away from

here with messages for my followers

What's required?

Not a single pigeon of them

should reach its destination

Okay, I understand.

"Alexandria"

"A city in Egypt"

Release the pigeons.

Someone save us,

we're going to die!

We're going to die drowning!

Hassan! My children, oh God!

Trim the sail!

Throw it in the water!

Hassan, Hassan I'm

scared, I'm scared!

Don't be afraid!

This is a message.

Oh God, I'm scared!

How can you be so calm and assured,

we're dying, we're drowning!

There's no death, nor drowning!

Everything will be fine.

Hassan!

Oh God!

Oh God, my children, oh God!

Imam Nizar, peace be upon him, informed me

that the storm will subside

and the ship will survive

you still have more to life.

If you want the blessing of our lord

change the ship's direction to Acre.

God is great!

I am now one of your followers

change the ship's direction to Acre.