Ramy - Third Season

You're marrying Zainab today, all right?

It's happening.

I just started having

some thoughts

about somebody else.

Did you act on 'em?

I feel guilty

about something that

I'm now realizing maybe...

Maybe I should've told you.

- Amani, your cousin? - Yeah.

Amani, who is in our wedding photos?

- Well, yeah, she's... - She's family.

You broke my baby girl's heart.

I was just trying to tell her the truth.

Fuck you, Ramy!

You hurt people!

Socrates famously remarked,

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

Sadly, many, if not most, human beings are born,

live, and die without ever examining their lives.

An honest examination of life raises fundamental questions.

How did I get here?

What is the purpose of life?

And what, if anything, lurks behind the curtain of death?

Do you believe in fate?

There's something about destiny

that's always felt hopeless.

It's like, no matter what I do, I'm just gonna be

where it was written for me to be.

So why do anything?

Why even try at all?

In Islam, we say in shall ah.

And I always thought it meant, "If God wills it to be."

But as I got older, I realized the translation

is a little different.

It's more like, "If God willed it to be."

Past tense, 'cause it's already been chosen.

It's already been chosen, but we still have choice.

I-it's a concept beyond our understanding.

How can you choose what's already been chosen?

Only God could know.

Are we ever wrong or right?

Did I fuck up my life, or was it always gonna be fucked up?

Sometimes it feels like my only choice is...

if I'm gonna be smiling when I meet God.

There's a passage in the Quran that gives me faith.

Allah says, "We created you in pairs."

And there's something so beautiful about that.

It's like, even if our fate's already been written,

all of our blessings, all of our downfalls,

it was written for us to be together in a pair.

We're not meant to be alone.

That's what's so beautiful about marriage.

It feels like the best choice you've ever made,

but it also doesn't feel like a choice at all.

It's kind of like, the only thing

you really have to choose is the right ring.

Wow, where'd you learn all that, kid?

You married?

Uh, no, no, I'm not.

But, um, one day.

In shall ah, that's what we say

in... in our religion. In shall ah.

This girl feels like fate.

She's Lebanese.

Her visa's running out,

then we meet and fall in love,

and now she gets to stay in America if I marry her.

Now, what are the chances of that timing?

I-I mean, that... yeah, tha... that sounds like...

Egypt. Egypt.

One second.

Yo. I got something big.

I told Selim that we sold the watch to the Yemenis,

you and I, okay?

He flipped out 'cause they don't buy shit.

I sold the watch to the Yemenis.

It took me, like, three weeks to close that deal.

You, me, I mean, we both sold it.

We're like a team now.

We're like Moses and the Egyptians.

You know that was, like,

a really fucked-up relationship?

Yeah, but this one's gonna be better,

because they want to meet right now.

- Selim from the Diamond Club? - He wants to meet me?

- Diamond Club, baby. - We got to go now.

Okay, yeah. Um...

Uh, sir, uh, my uncle's gonna ring you up,

but, please, tag us on Instagram when you propose?

Beautiful culture you have here.

You gonna buy this shit or what?

I spent the last two years taking us online.

We've got almost a million followers,

a-and soon we won't even be able to keep up with orders.

If we had just the access to your suppliers,

we could do something really special, you know?

We really want to work with the Diamond Club.

Now I got a warehouse with silver dragons

collecting dust.

Oh, women love Arabic, okay?

You can't fuck in New York unless you know Rumi.

Look, I-I don't understand everything you guys are saying.

- But if we did this... - Just give us a minute.

In shall ah.

It's very impressive what you did with Dunya.

Thank you, sir, and, you know,

dunya actually means "this life" in... in Islam,

- like... like, before... -

"The world to come."

Our traditions have a lot in common.

Yeah, I-I've always felt that...

That we share this deep...

Christmas-less-ness, you know?

Chri... huh?

Like, uh... like, not celebrating Christmas, right?

Like... like, the whole country's...

This whole country's, like, worshipping Santa,

an... and we're like, "No, I don't think so.

This doesn't feel right," you know?

- Mm. - I remember being

in kindergarten.

Everyone's talking about Santa.

I look over at this kid Ari, and I'm like,

"Dude, we know the truth.

"You know, we know

this is just, like, a capitalist fucking lie."

Like, Santa's not... He's not in the texts.

Like, none of them... None of the...

None of the testaments.

Over there, we have conflict.

But over here,

we see our brotherhood.

Ramy, do you believe in God?

You know, I...

I-I used to, but I don't know.

So I'm just trying to do something to help my family,

a-and I'm not gonna let anything get in the way.

Look, we don't do business with many,

but when we give you a job, we need our money quick.

And if you lose a client, the cash comes out of your pocket.

This is not online sales.

- I-I know. - I know... I understand.

Then we go to Israel on Sunday, huh?

We go to... to where?

Israel.

If you're joining us, there has to be trust, right?

The boss only meets in person in Israel.

- Right, I-I-I thought... - I just thought you said, like,

over there, there's prob... But over here, we have the...

Yeah, but we have to go over there to understand

what's going on over here.

Yeah.

Get up, and paper the block.

Uncle Na seem, I'm over here trying to save us money,

and you're wasting it on flyers

that don't even look like you anymore.

- This is true. - I'm much better-looking now.

- And that guy yesterday... - He was gonna by that ring.

It was expensive.

You didn't close the deal.

- I wasn't going to sell him. - He's a fucking FBI.

- Yeah, yeah. - Everyone's a fed or a...

Or a pedophile that works for Obama, right?

That... that's the whole world?

Why didn't you finish the sale yourself?

Be a man. No, you didn't.

Because I was going to the Diamond Club, all right?

To meet with Selim.

- What? - Who... how... how...

That's the kind of relationship

that can actually help us.

Those guys are criminals.

Everything they do is unethical.

"Unethical"?

Didn't you buy half our stuff from China?

Made by Muslims.

Are you talking about the... the Uyghur camps?

A Muslim is a Muslim.

Habibi, it's okay.

Once we make a lot of money, we will free them.

You just don't want to work with this guy

because he's Jewish... admit it.

I work with Jews all day, dum-dum.

Daniel.

Da... Daniel!

I'm doing shit, Na seem.

This kid wants to work with Selim.

I tell him those guys are criminals.

Guess what he say.

He say I'm anti-Semitic.

Tell him. Tell him that he is brainwashed by Twitter.

- Kid, you can't. - Those guys are the fucking Mob.

There's a price that comes with working with them

that you don't want to pay.

And your uncle is anti-Semitic. Wha...

How long I been working with you, huh?

Doesn't mean you don't hate me.

- It's... - No, I hate Indians more.