Anyone who enters the Sultan's house of secrets, leave with none.
Hassan Al-Sabbah was exiled to Morocco.
But knowledge, boldness, and luck
saved him.
He ordered the ship's captain to head to Acre
And from Acre, he returned to Isfahan
to renew his call for the absent Imam who would return.
Imam Nizar.
- Back to Isfahan again, Hassan? - I must meet Nizam Al-Mulk.
An enemy state to us and our school of thought, Hassan.
There is no school of thought
I'll despise it.
And for the call
He returned to renew his friendship once again.
The promise between him, Nizam Al-Mulk, and Omar Khayyam.
What guarantees that King Nizam Al-Mulk welcome you?
- The promise between us. - He might deny it
or forget it.
He's not like that.
Indeed
Nizam Al-Mulk kept his promise
and appointed Hassan in the palace
in charge of summarising the secret correspondences.
Want me to accept the presence of two in this position in the Sultan's Court
One, from a different school of thought, wants to entrust him with state secrets.
and the other handles its money?
Hassan found the most dangerous place within the Seljuk Empire.
You will find here
everything you can think of, Hassan.
He began leaking letters, correspondences, and information about the state.
From the Abbasid Caliph, caliph of the Muslims
to Malik-Shah.
I write to you to warn you of the impending danger.
Until he found a grand opportunity
that was worth the risk.
Episode Five "The Abbasid Caliph"
What did yesterday teach you?
By the way
I went through similar darkness and loneliness long ago.
But it was inside a well
and out of it came Hassan Al-Sabbah.
What did you learn, Hussein?
I learned that
I will never forgive you.
We are in training, Yahya.
Yahya
Tyfoor, come.
Tomorrow, you three join the Sultan's army.
This was your last day of training.
Get up, you coward
Look out for the knight!
Sulaiman has become a knight!
- The Seljuk Empire's fall begins. - Ibrahim, come.
You're saying something?
What's up, Suleiman
I...am talking about, I mean...
I was talking about Tyfoor.
My lord, the Sultan.
Can summarize our state correspondences so it's not tonnes of letters?
In less than one small volume.
- How? - By abbreviating, My Lord.
Abbreviating by replacing letters with numbers
achieves two crucial things.
The first is secrecy
because few know this way of writing.
Second, it reduces the volume of correspondence.
Imagine, My Lord
The injustice of the people ,the army commander's orders
News from the courts and reports about enemies.
all on very few pages.
I need an example.
A and C mean Army Commander.
If we replace letters with numbers
This implies the commander's orders.
And so on in everything, My Lord.
Great, Hassan.
How long to make a yearly calendar for all state affairs?
No less than a year, My Lord.
A month.
What is the big difference in this estimate?
I've told you before, My Lord.
Hassan has a complex mentality.
And I'm waiting, Hassan.
My Lord.
What are you doing Hassan?
The first place I would be watched is definitely my home.
Sure, my home is full of holes.
And certainly, my neighbors are the Nizam Al-Mulk's men.
So it's not a shame to watch those who watch me.
Is Nizam Al-Mulk
going to watch you only through the neighbors?
Of course, not.
That's just one possibility out of a thousand.
As soon as I walk out my door.
I'm under constant surveillance.
What to do?
Integrity.
That all my actions have to be correct
From home
to work court
to the mosque
to the Sultan's court
to home.
You impressed me
and you impressed our Sultan.
Then, thank God.
So he knows you didn't bring your friend without a reason
but brought someone who can really be useful.
Right.
But I don't want you to be in the Sultan's court, Hassan
except in the narrowest limits.
Meaning don't be present
unless it's really important.
- How would I know if it's important or.. - I'll know.
I'll be the one to know and tell you, Hassan.
Okay.
But we have some sort of upcoming meeting.
After the meeting
You're not allowed in the Sultan's court without my permission, Hassan.
Hassan Al Sabbah goes against the tide.
My lord's face is not as cheerful as usual.
Al-Muqtadi
Our lord, the Caliph of the Muslims?
- What's with him? - Caliph over whom?
His Caliphate is meaningless.
No, my lord.
Your legitimacy
and the legitimacy of your father Alp Arslan and before him Tughril
all are derived from our allegiance to him.
Why?
I am Sultan Malik-Shah.
A Sultan over Muslim lands, from Jerusalem to India.
He sends me his orders?
He sits in his palace indulging in eating, drinking, and the courtesans.
We are the ones fighting
conquering lands with our lives on the line.
and then, he sends me his orders?
In a flash, I could remove him from his position.
- There's nothing stopping me. - Your manners will stop you, my lord.
your religion
your ethics
- and your gratitude. - Nizam Al-Mulk, don't make me more angry.
My lord's anger may ease if he hears the solution from his servant, Nizam Al-Mulk.
This matter, my lord, have only one solution.
The allegiance of the Turkish Sultan to the Abbasid Caliph.
Its solution
is to arrange a marriage
between our lord, the Sultan
and the Abbasid Caliph.
Meaning
that my lord Sultan Malik Shah's daughter should marry
the Abbasid Caliph
and thus
The son of my lord, with Turkish mother, language, identity, and passion
will be the twenty-ninth Abbasid Caliph.
Having a Turkish Abbasid Caliph
will mark a new era.
"Al-Ghazali's Setting"
Questions are what reshape the universe.
Tell me, gentlemen
Does anyone have any questions?
- Ask. - How can these Esoterics be wrong
and they have spread ominously as a school of thought?
Even Satan has many followers.
But they are not Satan.
They are dressed like scholars, the poor, and ascetics.
Do you know all the forms of Satan?
It can appear
in the form of an ascetic, a scholar, a poor person or anyone.
- I've bound myself to God's covenant. - To know his school of thought
I've bound myself to God's covenant
- Know his followers. - and all prophets.
Some of them crave fame
- And well-known reputation. - My inner, outer and thoughts
- He will find himself with the Esoterics - My wealth and what I possess
They have dazzling promises.
They'll tell you that you're the Imam.
You're the proof.
And there's a third type who is in dire straits
and he wants wealth, so he'll find his desire with the Esoterics .
Because they know the moment they join them
- I give you my soul, mind, and body - They will unlock the door of wealth
- Everything about me... - And the most dangerous among them all
is half ignorant.
- There's no such thing as half knowledge - My inner, outer and my thoughts
- This Half ignorant - My wealth and what I possess
is the one who takes the first steps in knowledge
Then gets tired, lazy
- and bored. - You weren't sent but for us
So he decides to enter the Esoterics to take a shortcut
for the sake of what he has learned.
He never actually was learning for the sake of knowledge.
He was doing it to stand out among people.
And indeed he will find his desires in the Esoterics
because it's filled with myths
that will satisfy his ignorance.
And the last thing
He is not religious at all.
But
he, God forbid, just loves the pleasures
and the Esoterics will grant him that
because they will lift all responsibilities from him.
And in the end
They will all be tied
by a devilish bond.
Congratulations.
To possess their bodies
their souls and hearts.
Unfortunately
I understood, Master.
I understand.
Great.
See you in the next lesson, God willing.
Don't be late.
Al-Ghazali is more dangerous than the Sultan and Nizam Al-Mulk.
He has a strong proof and is ascetic
and, unfortunately, his reputation is good.
Should we kill him?
Or show people that he is fixated to the Sultan and the power
and his loyalty is to the deceivers, not God.
Isn't it like killing him?
What's this?
Hassan Al-Sabah's surveillance report.
Either you're underestimating the minister Nizam Al-Mulk
or you must be drunk.
My lord, great Minister
Just as I am observing him.
he's watching me as well.
Did you read what you've written?
Guard
To be punished for drinking alcohol.
- But I didn't taste wine, my lord. - Fine then, behead him.
No, I'm ready to bear the punishment for drinking, my lord!
He'll remain in prison for a week after the punishment until we look into his case.
De - lus - ion!
Delusion?
What's wrong?
Always silent
Always sorrowful
What's wrong wiht you?
I feel like I'm not free.
I want to leave
travel
When does your uncertainty end?
What am I doing?
- Nothing. - Oh, Come on!
So, writing poetry that enchants people
and making a calendar that astonishes the Sultan
and achieving what nobody else has, but in the end, it's nothing?
And ultimately?
A poet who will be forgotten
and a knowledge that someone else will perfect.
And Omar Khayyam
will die, descend beneath the earth and become nothing.
A meaningless handful of dust.
Every step forward
takes me closer to my grave.
Can you write the word grave by yourself?
Grave?
Do you know that grave
is spelled like near?
Let's stick to the near.
I like your style.
One reads the report with a smile for your concise and coded language.
Secrecy is crucial, my lord.
Did Nizam Al-Mulk see this report?
Certainly.
Don't ever sidestep Nizam Al-Mulk
because stepping over Nizam Al-Mulk means you're crossing a line into danger.
Not stepping over, my lord.
I know the value of Nizam Al-Mulk
and I truly deeply appreciate it.
He is really, like people say, the Sultan's most trusted source.
The one who can competently manage state affairs
when the Sultan is busy with his conquests.
He is also the voice of wisdom that our lord relies on.
And is the only one
of the subjects who make swift decisions without consulting the Sultan.
Because he always prioritizes the nation and the Sultan.
I can't step over him.
This is public's opinion?
and it's noted briefly with my lord.
Every time I come to the court, you are here.
Don't you ever go home?
My home is my work.
Your home is your work.
Or can you be in two places at the same time?
Exoteric school
suggests that is impossible.
But what about the Esoteric?
That requires faith
and spiritual practices that I cannot do.
Humble!
- What have you done? - I am almost done.
Even the Caliph's message to the Sultan is summarized.
It is shameful to summarize a message from the Caliph of the Muslims to our Sultan?
Shameful.
- Yes. - You didn't tell me about the message.
My job is just reading and summarizing.
But didn't you notice
the Caliph's marriage to the Sultan's daughter?
Didn't you notice his honor to visit Isfahan?
Is all this normal to you?
Should I speak to you formally or as friends?
We are in the court
but friendship is prior.
Talk to me as a friend.
Tusi, honestly, the Caliph's affair doesn't concern me.
As you know
He is a Caliph over the Muslims who pledge to him.
Whether my lord Sultan visits him or not
Marry into Caliph's family or not
I don't care.
I like your honesty, Hassan.
But it concerns me
and it concerns me that this visit should be legendary.
Most importantly
It should pass safely.
Whether it passes safely or not, that's your job, Tusi.
My lord minister is very clever.
Jihan
"I loved you, Omar"
"But I knew I couldn't stay with you."
Finally, Jihan learned to write.
I'm bored.
Ibrahim, take the honor
- and stitch this. - Stitch?
- I'm a chemist, Sulaiman. - What's a chemist?
You can't stitch?
- Are you showing off, Sulaiman? - Yes, I am showing off.
If you're the muscles, I'm the brain.
Who wins, a brain resister or muscles?
Muscles.
What's on your mind, Yehia?
- He's in love. - In love!
Tell me, Shakon
Have you ever been in love?
Of course, I have been.
Is there anyone who didn't, Sulaiman?
I've wasted my life in love.
You've wasted your life in love?
Roasting goat meat in front of you
The duck while it's in your hands
The lentil soup that warms your chest in the winter.
And you, Ibrahim, have you loved before?
I loved a Palestinian girl while on a journey with the Sennar people.
I wrote a song about her.
Why not sing it to us?
I don't want to disturb you, the song has emotions.
We're your brothers, Ibrahim.
Go on.
I hold my heart in my hand and gamble
with my life and sword for the sake of life with death
I let my spear go into the clouds
and leave my fate to passion, praying not to be defeated.
I have believed in the unknown when I dreamed
that it hides a forthcoming lover meeting
Oh, war comes into the arms of my storm
For I am drawn to freedom
Don't mourn me, mom, if I die I would die loving her
If I live, I will live as her lover.
Oh, the beloved of my soul is like an Imam...
My life is a small price for her.
I hold my heart in my hand and gamble
With my life and sword for the sake of life with death.
Securing the entrance of Isfahan is critical.
Your presence
will be outside Isfahan, a day's journey away.
As soon as the Caliph's convoy arrives at your location
you will escort him safely to Isfahan.
This day is unprecedented in history.
Each house and rooftop must have one of our soldiers.
Understood, my lord.
Anyone on foot
or on horseback
or on his camel
is to be thoroughly searched.
The commoners
will be largely separated
from the caliph's convoy.
If you find in his pocket
or in his bag
a piece of stale bread
He must be immediately arrested.
This piece of stale bread could be a weapon.
There's no margin for error.
Absolutely none.
Whoever commits an error has no excuse.
He will pay the price with his life.
I had to pay a large sum for this house
Though just a usual house
because of this basement.
I knew from the first moment I saw you going into it.
But every time you go into it, I worry you will not return.
You will leave after me.
And leave Hussein and Atiya alone?
They're men, they'll handle it.
I'll try to stick around.
Nour Bareq's wife must see your tears
and accept your money, Donia.
I've committed.
Congratulations.
Congratulations on becoming a proclaimer of the truth.
Praise be to Allah.
No
Oral praises are not enough.
You are a clever Turkish boy, Nour.
The task ahead is the most honorable ever.
Ever since I started my call.
A task history will remember.
You will kill the greatest devil
their Commander of the believers, their Muslims' caliphate.
You will kill the Abbasid caliph.