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Famine exhausted the Fatimids.

How did they get to this situation?

Because of strife.

People are that hungry.

People are helpless and got accustomed to hunger.

If life is really difficult, they will eat anything.

In the midst of poverty, disease and hunger,

Al-Sabbah began his invocation.

Every star has a meaning

and every good vision, an account.

Invocation to the unknown.

Ask and you'll be answered.

For the unknown.

Invocation of allegiance to an absent imam for a purpose that no one knows.

You can stay because you are of our sect,

but you will not meet our lord imam.

Al-Sabbah sought to meet the Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah to pledge allegiance.

But Hasan faced a major obstacle, a powerful minister; Badr Al-Din Al-Jamali

who saved Cairo from famine.

Badr Al-Din Al-Jamali did not care about Hasan,

but he wouldn’t allow anyone

to deny his son-in-law, Al-Musta’li, of being a Caliph after Al-Mustansir's death.

Get off your horse, you Armenian dog.

When Hasan was beginning his journey which is full of fear and danger,

Should you tell it to me or admit that you are a phony and leave?

Or are you gonna lie to me and get beheaded?

Who will be the future Caliph?

A question that bothers my lady.

My lady has lived a long life. She fears that she'll be a bereaved mother

after all this life,

after the death of the Caliph,

and that the minister can do whatever he wants.

Omar Khayyam was searching for the meaning of life.

Who's more beautiful,

You or your voice?

Minister Nizam al-Mulk seeks to designate the new Sultan to his throne.

I heard a voice calling

at dawn

I heard a voice calling

at dawn

Calling from the unseen

for the unmindful of people

to get up and fill the cups of hope

before their life cups

is filled by fate

I heard a voice calling

I heard a voice calling

at dawn

at dawn

I heard a voice calling

I heard a voice calling

I heard a voice calling

at dawn

EPISODE THREE: THE NIZARI INVOCATION

What do you say now that God helped me and made me control your destiny?

How do you judge yourself, uncle?

Your cousins seduced and tempted me, and they pushed me to do you harm.

They abandoned me after they had pledged their allegiance to me.

After I was defeated, they claimed that they were all with you.

What is your evidence?

Between my navel and my belt, there is a letter.

It contains all their names and evidence of their betrayal.

Open it, Nizam al-Mulk, and tell me the names of the traitors.

My lord.

I think you should be patient.

I advise you to call them here first and then we will decide.

CAIRO, CAPITAL OF THE FATIMID EMPIRE

My lord.

AL-MUSTANSIR BILLAH, THE FATIMID CALIPH

Did you really cure my mother?

I trust that my lord saw it with his own eyes.

- Where are you from? - From Persia, the city of Rey.

Did you come all this way to see me?

Everything becomes easy for the sake of meeting the imam.

Whoever sees you feels that he has been to heaven, my lord.

- Do you have a specific request? - To pledge allegiance to you, my lord.

This is my request and my life's dream.

I pledge to be a servant of you and your invocation

and the imam after you

with my body, self, soul, outer and inner.

- Your pledge is accepted… - Hasan Al-Sabbah, my lord.

- May I ask you something, my lord? - Go ahead.

Who is the next Caliph after you?

My son, Nizar.

Thank God.

So, Hasan, how is our invocation in your country?

Very widespread in villages, outskirts and in all places.

Even though those of us who are arrested are tortured,

but sincerity in hearts has no limits.

I have heard that the Seljuks have reached the borders of China.

They also defeated the crusaders and humiliated in the Battle of Malazgirt.

Even if they ruled the entire world, my lord,

their claim is invalid, and their doctrine is corrupt.

All their victories are less than the wing of a mosquito.

My lord, the Minister, Badr al-Din al-Jamali.

Badr, this is Hasan Al-Sabbah.

He is our preacher in Persia.

Honor and treat his visit, for he is in my care and satisfaction.

He is also a spiritual person.

My mother was healed thanks to him.

At your command, my lord.

Are you the Sultan’s joker?

But this is a humiliating job.

It is not so. I’m sitting here thanks to this job.

Do you know where I would be if I were the Sultan's griefer?

- Where? - No one knows. I would disappear.

Whoever makes the Sultan sad disappears.

- I feel uncomfortable. - This is normal.

Do you think this food might be poisoned?

I don't think so. The Sultan’ll certainly kill us, but not in this outdated way.

- How will he kill us then? - Do you care?

Don't be afraid. He knows our soldiers are here. I don't think he’s that stupid.

To the Sultan Malik Shah.

- To the Sultan. - To the Sultan.

You are all members of the Sultan's household,

but my uncle says that there are those among you who conspired with him.

Then, they switched their loyalty to me.

- That didn't happen. - This is a lie. He is a liar.

- This is nonsense. - He's a liar.

- That's not true. - He is the only traitor.

- That is not true. He’s the only traitor. - He's a liar.

The names of the traitors were written in this letter.

And it's wrapped.

Once opened,

we will know all their names.

Their fate will be death.

However,

My lord, the Sultan, ordered

that I don’t open it,

and that the names of the traitors must remain secret

so that every one of them

has to live the rest of their lives knowing what they did.

Long live Sultan Malik Shah!

- Long live Sultan Malik Shah! - Long live Sultan Malik Shah!

- Long live Sultan Malik Shah! - Long live Sultan Malik Shah!

Thus, my lord,

you will ensure their loyalty until the last day of their lives.

Now, they think I'm whispering their names to you.

They are very terrified.

Long live our lord, the Sultan!

And you, uncle,

You’re the only one who confronted me publicly.

So, I’ll be the one who ends your life

in order to honor you.

Long live our lord, the Sultan!

And for the greatness of the Sultanate

and confirming the reign of the Sultan,

a purge must take place.

To confirm the reign of our lord,

reassure the public

and warn relatives against rebelling.

A solid reign of a sultan doesn’t exist

without blood.

- Long live Sultan Malik Shah! - Long live Sultan Malik Shah!

Long live Sultan Malik Shah!

Long live Sultan Malik Shah!

Should I start looking for you?

- Isn’t that enough of playing, Hussein? - But Hadi is playing too.

- Yes, but you are the oldest. - Yes, sir.

Good boy. Now, do what I told you to do.

- Do you mean letters and numbers? - Yes, letters and numbers.

- What is the matter? - How do you ask me that?

- Doesn't the answer appear in my face? - I can't read faces like you do,

But I know from your back what you are feeling.

Something is happening.

Nizar is in Alexandria, and Badr Al-Jamali entered the palace two days ago.

There is something being arranged.

Oh, people of guarded Egypt,

this is a sad day.

May God have mercy on our Majesty, the greatly respected Caliph,

the imam of Muslims and the proof of the Lord of the Worlds.

Oh, people of guarded Egypt,

this is a sad day.

May God have mercy on our Majesty, the greatly respected Caliph,

the imam of Muslims and the proof of the Lord of the Worlds.

Oh, people of guarded Egypt,

this is a sad day.

That's why Badr Al-Din Al-Jamali sent me to Alexandria.

Soldiers need some enthusiasm to prevent strife.

Badr Al-Din Al-Jamali has a large number of soldiers.

How do you risk sending messages?

Suppose what you said did not happen.

Suppose Badr Al-Din Al-Jamali intercepted one of them.

- Suppose, Hasan... - If I did, I wouldn’t be able to think.

I think of only one plan and try to run it as quickly as possible.

How do you know, Hasan, that the youngest son will be the Caliph

Instead of his eldest son, Nizar?

The Caliph himself told you that Nizar will succeed him.

I met Badr Al-Din Al-Jamali, a very powerful and stubborn minister.

I am the servant of our lord, the Caliph, Al-Mustansir Billah

and I worship his grace. I’m his trustworthy secret keeper.

He doesn't like Nizar. I’m sure he didn't marry his daughter to Al-Mustali

for him to protect her.

So that there's no injustice or confusion, and so that suspicions do not arise,

Our lord’s will closes every door of Shaitan.

Everyone knows that our lord’s will is valid.

Badr Al-Jamali wants to control Cairo completely through Al-Mustali.

and what's the difference? Even if that happened,

both are descendants of imam Al-Mustansir. Both are his children,

- and pass on his secret. - “My will is that who will succeeds me

is my son Al-Musta’li Billah”

No.

What you are saying is a big mistake.

even if there are 20 children, only one of them inherits the secret.

Our lord told me that the secret lies in imam Nizar.

They usurped the right of imamate from us.

- God is not satisfied with injustice. - “Although he is the youngest,

he is the most rational.”

Whoever’s with us is in the right, and lives with his head held high.

“He is most capable of ruling Muslims with the sword of justice,

and gracing leniency.”

Also, imam Nizar,

is the door that God opened for Hasan Al-Sabbah.

- This is a fake will. - The Caliph is our lord Nizar.

Stop it right there, gentlemen.

Hasan who stood beside the oppressed and absent imam.

Whoever refuses to pledge allegiance is a traitor.

And the traitor to the covenant,

gets his head cut off.

The story will return to its beginning.

A new absent imam.

A new oppressed person that stirs the emotions of the entire world.

A new era and a new invocation.

The Nizari invocation.

Only one person can connect between them and the absent imam.

Who is your imam?

Imam Nizar, peace be upon him.

As imam Al-Mustansir, may God have mercy on him, told me.

Your imam was killed.

Who is your imam now?

You have a chance before I chop your head off

To say only one thing,

My imam is Al-Musta’li Billah, peace be upon him.

My imam is Nizar, peace be upon him, even if he was killed.

The absent imam will return.

Well, is that your choice?

Wait.

Killing the imam and me doesn’t mean the Nizari invocation is done.

There are 300 advocates of truth who believe me more than themselves.

They received my letters.

The oppression of our lord Al-Husayn will be renewed in Persia

with our lord Nizar.

Ok. Then, bargain for your life.

Send messages of repenting and correcting the path.

- And be an infidel and a traitor? - Why not?

It’s better for you to be a living infidel and traitor than to be a dead believer.

What guarantees my life?

A boat will take you to Morocco, and there, you will disappear forever.

You might kill me after I send the messages.

Betrayal it is in your nature.

Pigeons won’t fly until your boat moves.

Goodbye. Your stay was short.

But this is more than the accommodation fee.

- I have a very important request. - What is it?

The boat will sail from Alexandria.

Pigeons will fly from here with messages to my followers.

- What is required? - That no pigeon reaches its destination.

Understood.

ALEXANDRIA. A CITY IN EGYPT

Send the pigeons.

Oh, God!

Help!

We’re gonna die!

The boys, Hasan!

Lower the sail!

Get the water out!

Drop the load!

Hasan, I'm scared, Hasan!

- I'm scared. - Don't be scared. This will pass.

- I'm scared! - How are you at ease? We’re drowning!

We won't die. We won't drown. Everything will be fine.

Hasan!

Oh, God!

Help!

Calm down, sea.

God, please protect my children.

Calm down, sea.

Calm down, sea.

Calm down, sea.

Calm down, sea.

Calm down, sea.

Our lord imam Nizar told me the storm will calm down, and the boat will survive.

Your time hasn’t come yet.

If you want our lord’s blessing, change the boat’s direction to Acre.

Allahu Akbar.

From now on, I am your follower.

Change the boat's direction to Acre.

WIND TIMINGS AND SPEED CALCULATIONS