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The secret

with only one person.

My son.

Nizar.

Praise be to God.

The Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah died.

Badr Al-Jamali wants to takes full control of Cairo

through Al-Musta'li.

The powerful Armenian minister, Badr Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali controlled

over every aspect of the Fatimid State

and so the treachery began, and the sedition was ignited

then Badr El-Deen disposed of the elder son

the death of Nizar Al-Mustansir Billah's son

it was the gate opened for Hassan Al-Sabbah.

I offer you my soul, mind, and body

to start a new dawah

dawah for the murdered Imam

from whom no connection remains with the world

except for one person

Hassan Al-Sabbah

Al-Dawah al-Nizariyyah.

Hassan was exiled to Morocco

but he exploited destiny and circumstances

and knowledge

and the boat went to Acre

and from Acre to Isfahan.

Hassan begins the rest of his journey

and his dream and secret.

At the same time, the minister Nizam Al-Mulk

was managing the affairs of the Sultanate

and consolidating the rule of Sultan Malik-Shah

with cleverness and cunning

he quelled the familial sedition.

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

and the friends will meet

again.

EPISODE FOUR HOUSE OF THE SULTANATE'S SECRET

If you had the choice to kill Hassan to live

kill Hassan!

I arrived here with my faith.

There aren't two faiths

only one faith.

- One faith in what? - In Hassan Al-Sabbah!

Another nightmare?

I feel for you, Hassan.

The danger really increases for us.

Danger is the sacred path that leads me to my goal

my presence in danger is safety, Donia.

They said he gets out expelled on a ship to Morocco

and I said the boat to dock in Acre.

I want those.

Can you afford them?

Your sword.

If my sword comes out, I'd take them without paying any silver.

I am tired.

You're not a girl, the road is still long.

Hassan is still a child.

I want him to become a man.

ACRE PORT

Long live Sultan Malik-Shah!

Yahya! Yahya!

Yahya! Yahya!

Have you gone mad? He's your brother, not your enemy!

You avenge who killed your father when you fight.

Pardon me, commander.

Ibrahim!

I have become jealous.

Of whom?

Of your love for your work

we don't see you anymore.

Your loyalty to Sultan and state

has become bigger than your love for me and our children.

The strength of the state comes from my strength, lady Gulnar.

What about us?

You living in glory and safety

my success at work and my sincerity to it

is what ensures everything for this house, Gulnar.

It's not guaranteed

none of this is guaranteed.

Governance and politics

never treated anyone fairly

they are dangerous.

Gulnar, danger exists even when I'm asleep in bed

what makes men is betting on the truth, no matter how dangerous it is...

safety is in taking risks.

Every day you win

- your enemies increase. - Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Those enemies are the fuel for manhood.

How is the beloved of the Sultanate's minister?

- Anxious. - Anxious!

I wish I was the wife of a simple carpet maker.

Meaning…

You're laughing!

I would have made you the most beautiful carpet.

I would knit it for you with silk threads

and draw your beautiful face on it.

I would hang it on the wall

so that no one steps on it with their feet

only look at it with their eyes

so that everyone knows.

What it means for a man to love a woman.

You know how to deceive me!

Shall I order the food?

Do you know what our state lacks?

What?

We have a great sultan

and we have a strong army

we have great scholars and established schools...

we're just missing two geniuses

Omar Khayyam,

and Hassan Al-Sabbah.

Goodbye, goodbye.

Oh mortal world, goodbye.

The resurrection occurred

and people are either in heaven or in hell and they are unaware.

- Who's in hell and who's in heaven? - Everyone's in hell.

- Then who’s in heaven? - Me.

In heaven alone

dancing and singing.

In heaven alone

dancing and singing.

How are you, Abu Suhon?

Our number increased.

I have 200 preacher with me

for Imam Nizar.

I'm returning to Isfahan, there're a lot going on between me and Nizam Al-Mulk.

We are with you around Isfahan.

Stay with the poor and the needy

treat them with kindness and mercy

don't say anything but one sentence to them

the scholars are liars and they aren't the people with arguments.

How do we meet?

On moonless nights

at the cave of ibn Attash.

Goodbye.

Goodbye, goodbye.

Oh mortal world, goodbye.

Isfahan again, Hassan?

I must meet Nizam Al-Mulk.

What guarantees you that Nizam Al-Mulk will receive you well?

The pledge between us.

He might deny it.

He might forget it.

It's not like him.

Other than that, he needs me.

An enemy state to us and our school of thought, Hassan.

There's no school of thought.

- I'll deny it. - You'll deny it!

Finally…

the friends meet.

Years have gone by

but it seems like our hearts didn't change.

So, as long as the hearts remain the same

then surely the pledges are too.

- A man's nature is to keep pledges. - So it’s time.

Do you know what I have become now?

The minister of a state that God wished to be the strongest.

The minister of the strongest state

won't allow anyone coming from the Fatimid

to preach his school of thought here.

Who said I'm here to preach any school of thought?

- I just came to remind you of our pledge. - I'm keeping the pledge

but within the secure boundaries of Sultan Malik-Shah's state.

Does the state's power lies only in the military, Tusi?

Or it also lies in knowledge and people’s minds?

Do you want to manage a province and be responsible for it?

and responsible for the sciences and philosophy?

I can provide you with all the capabilities.

No, no.

I be a ruler! I rule people!

I can't even rule myself.

- I don't want it. - Fine.

Then stay by my side in the ministry diwan

You will be in charge of scientific affairs

and astronomy, algebra, and mathematics.

No, nor this, Tusi.

- I am still learning. - I knew it.

Omar Khayyam is a man without responsibility except

- Dreams. - Dreams.

Yes, dreams.

I'm not like you, I'm free and I want to stay free.

Omar Khayyam's freedom is our responsibility

and at the expense of our state.

And you, Hassan.

Do you know why I saved you for last?

Because of the danger of ambition.

There is no danger, nor ambition nor anything.

I just want to be in a place where I can benefit you

and benefit the state that you love.

A place where I can give all my effort and intellect, Tusi.

By God's grace.

I have established the largest surveillance system

there is no human

who whispers from his lips

and I don't know what he said

and from me

to our lord, the Sultan

can you imagine the level of trustworthiness and honesty!

Yeah, but

what would my role be exactly?

You will be responsible in front of me

for writing

all surveillance reports in a simplified form

for our Sultan.

But this is indeed a great responsibility.

You'll be responsible for the writing of the surveillance reports

but at the same time

you will also be under surveillance

just like any human in Isfahan.

Agreed.

As long as your safety ensures my safety, agreed.

Then tomorrow we will all pray behind our lord, the Sultan in the grand mosque.

All of us.

You want me to accept two in this position in the Sultanate court

one of them is from another school of thought

you want trust it with the secrets of the state

and the other to spend its money on him.

And he is known for his doubt and lack of faith

that is if he even has faith!

Our state is great, my lord

it is unparalleled

and great states open their doors for great minds...

and Hassan Al-Sabbah is a great mind...

he will do everything he can to present amazing ideas

for our state and our Sultan

to prove his loyalty

and regains the trust he lost when he was expelled from the Fatimid

as for Omar Khayyam

he'll present new ideas especially in algebra

mathematics, astronomy and calendar

besides, he has a free heart

the free person do not betray, my lord.

Are you guaranteeing their loyalty?

I guarantee them with my life, Your Excellency, the Sultan.

The pain doesn't go away, Ibrahim.

Take this.

Press this under your tooth for relief.

Are you treating him with parsley?

- Enough ignorance, Soliman. - That's enough, Soliman.

My bad, Tayfour.

I wish a war soon so you could unleash

this pent-up rage inside you on someone other than me, Yahya.

- It's just a minor scratch, Tayfour. - But in his eye

and the best thing about him is his eyes.

- He has nothing else. - Soliman!

Calm down!

What?

I apologize, it's my fault, Tayfour.

What's wrong, Ibrahim?

Just press it underneath your tooth.

What do I have to do with Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafi'i, Malik, and ibn Hanbal?

I want to hear about someone alive.

A reliable person whom everyone agrees upon.

And who is this trustworthy man that everyone agrees upon

so far, according to you?

The living Imam

our lord, the Awaited Mahdi.

Alright, fine.

Bring him to me for discussion,

or instead.

Tell me where he is and I'll go to him and I'll be among his first followers

if his words are true.

He's in occultation.

How am I supposed to solve my problems and issues?

Or am I supposed to wait and not to address any issue

until he decides to show up?

There're preachers who speak on his behalf and we listen to them.

How do they speak on his behalf when he's absent?

How can I trust them? And what is their evidence anyway?

If they know the method of communication and his location

why don't they tell the rest of the people so they can also follow him?

You will never follow him, nor see him nor know him

because your heart doesn't have the light guiding you to him.

Your heart is polluted with the love of the world and bribes

and the false belief that knowledge resides only in people like you.

- People like you lack knowledge. - Man, why the false accusations?

We're discussing with reason.

There is no reason with our lord's words.

- Where is this lord? - He is there!

And God has hidden him from your sight.

You won't kill him like the Imams before, disbelievers.

- How rude! You need discipline! - Leave him alone!

- Leave him. - He needs to be disciplined!

I'm responsible for him.

So he can learn how to be polite with scholars.

Who told you to argue with scholars?

My faith.

I think it's better not to confront the scholars.

It's enough that you distort their image in front of the poor and needy

Let them teach people disbelief?

Scholars in mosques talk to people like them

all of them are in the same ignorance

but the oppressed poor sitting in his house

that's who you should go to and knock on his door

and even serve him

he must see your mercy and righteousness

then you invite him to your school of faith

with affection, not reason.

then he will hate the world

and hate his servitude to the state and the Sultan.

until the known day comes.

What day?

Scholars in mosques who can't find anyone to listen to them.

At first, I thought you would torture me.

I thought our lord Hassan

denied our school of thought

and became a subject to the Sultan and Nizam Al-Mulk.

I love a person who chooses, Ardash,

human is free

I can smuggle you and you can spread dawah somewhere else

and I can torture you

and this will consolidate my position and dawah better.

and your wounds and pains

are an evidence of sincerity

in the heart of every oppressed

who has seen or heard of Ardash's suffering for dawah.

Choose

do whatever your heart tells you.

By the way, Ardash.

I love you unconditionally.

Scholars' obedience is mandatory!

At first, I didn't believe your words about him

his loyalty led him to flog a fellow believer.

Hassan Al-Sabbah's loyalty is to himself, my lord

now it's in his interest to prove his loyalty to us.

Omar Khayyam is awaiting my lord, the Sultan.

An unprecedented accurate calculation of the year.

We will have a great calendar and yearly calculations.

Omar Khayyam, oh my lord.

Who is like Omar Khayyam!

Omar, how can you combine poetry

which is something romantic and spiritual

with Algebra which is more of an intellectual matter?

Love.

Everything I do, I do it with love

algebra, the calculation

like music is free

and like the mind, it has calculations.

I also want to hear some poetry.

My lord, the Sultan.

- It seems the poet Omar… - Unrestrained.

I want to hear Omar's poetry unrestrained as you write it.

That departing blames the drunkards.

If I wake, I would repent and sins are redeemed.

I took pride in abstemiousness of luxury.

Sinful she comes, blaming the youngster

I heard a yelling voice at early dawn

calling from the unseen the heedless humans

Rush to fill the cup of desires before

Life's cup would be filled with

The hand of fate.

I can't believe it.

What can't you believe?

As if you are a man

without ambition.

Does ambition means to be in charge?

My ambition is to remain free.

There is no greater ambition than this.

When I saw you.

A bold lover in ibn Al-Taher's palace.

I thought you were a man with limitless ambition.

Your eyes are my ambition.

Sometimes I am sad when I feel that I can't understand what you want.

I want my freedom.

What contradicts your freedom in being a man of power?

A great contradiction

every power is a chain I don't need.

Anyway, I love you and that's enough.

I don’t have to love you and understand you.

How about I teach you to read and write?

So your mind would understand mine.

Even if you flog a thousand Esoterics every day or even kill them

that won't change my opinion of you, Hassan.

The cord of affection and friendship is extended, Hassan.

But if I discover that you are

spreading your school of thought in the great Seljuk state.

I will not flog you or imprison you.

I will place your head on a spear for all of Isfahan to see.

You know what would be the greatest dawah to my school of thought right now?

That you actually roam with my head on a spear in Isfahan.

It will be as if you tell people to see for themselves

here it is a head of a new oppressed

and a head of a new oppressed

means new followers.

- Is this a challenge, Hassan? - On the contrary.

It's obedience and loyalty.

I'm telling you, if I want me to become a hero

pushing you to cut off my head is the easiest thing to do

and become a new martyr in the chain of martyrs

but I don't want to.

I want the state to be stable.

Come and learn about your new mission.

This section is dedicated to the Byzantines.

As for this,

it's dedicated to the Fatimid Caliphate

and this is for the Abbasid

as for the one behind you

it's for the Far East.

How can you get accurate inventory of information?

that ultimately brings you to a particular meaning or warning?

We can, Hassan.

Your job is to summaries with utmost accuracy

you can start with the Fatimid

your friends

you know better about them and their affairs

it would gives us a chance to compare the results you get

with the information we have

so we could measure your honesty and loyalty.

Great.

Here, you'll find information about all the dissenters

like the Esoterics for example.

Their meetings and their numbers

who among them is active and who is passive

and others

and of course, other dissenters.

You'll find information about the Sufi,

the philosophers, and the Mutakallimun

people of other faiths. You'll find here

whatever comes to your mind, Hassan.

If you allow me, I'll have to stay here for three nights.

So as to be able to get an idea related to summarization.

Three nights?

In the house Sultanate's secret?

I wish you tell the people responsible for my surveillance

to take care of me, if I need food or beverage.

Those who enter the house Sultanate's secret, Hassan

leave without a secret.

It means you go in and out

without a secret.

Our Lord, the Proof Hassan Al-Sabbah

sends his salutations to each and every one of you

may the peace of our Imam be upon you

may God sanctify his secret and perpetuate his shadow.

He tells you that Imam loves you very much.

Continue praying for our Imam Nizar

who is always smiling at you and pleased with you.

Tell the kind-hearted, that the dream is about to come true

and that the days of justice are near.

Justice without oppression, and the oppressive state is destined to fall.

He wants to tell you something critical

our lord the Proof Hassan Al-Sabbah.

Do not be deceived by the oppressive state's victory over the polytheists.

The Seljuks' victory over the Crusaders does not mean anything.

They're all the same.

The Seljuk and Abbasid are not so different from

the Crusaders, Buddhists, or Zoroastrians.

All of them are equally misguided.

You are the people of the truth.

Even if you're a small white dot in a black world.

Rejoice!

The hour of relief is near.

"From the Abbasid Caliph, the Caliph of Muslims to Malik-Shah

"I write to you to warn you of the imminent danger"

"the observers have informed us"

of something that our responsibility compels us to share with you"

Hussein.

For the third time, you haven't done your duty.

You didn't memorize what's required, nor helped your brother

and I've been told you fell from the horse three times.

- What did I teach you for? - I can't remember.

I hate you.

I don't like reading nor horse riding.

You are Hassan Al-Sabbah's son.

What you ask of me every day is too much.

- It's beyond my ability. - Nothing is beyond your ability.

You can even do the impossible!

No, I can't!

If you've forgotten what I taught you, let me remind you.

You know your father appreciates a man who chooses.

Do you choose to spend an entire night

alone in the darkness until morning?

or tomorrow at this time you would have done all your duties and even more?

Choose.

I'd spend the night alone in the dark.

- Hassan! - It's his choice!

Hassan!

For my sake, Hassan!

For my sake!

Don't worry!