You Will Die at Twenty (ستموت في العشرين)

Oh, Prophet, I feel the love.

Oh, Mustafa, oh, Muzamil, I feel the love.

Oh, Prophet, I feel the love.

Oh, Mustafa, oh, Muzamil, I feel the love.

Oh, Prophet, I feel the love.

Oh, Mustafa, oh, Muzamil, I feel the love.

Sakina, wait.

Hello, Sheikh.

It is a blessing that you came to us. This is my son, Muzamil.

God blessed me with him. Sheikh Al Shafee came to me in a vision.

It's as if it was fate.

I brought him for you to bless him.

By God's will there is light in his face.

You named him Muzamil after the Prophet.

Peace be upon him.

Praise be to God. 12.

Praise be to God. 16.

A person on God's earth knows not where his steps will take him

and wherever he goes, he will look for Allah.

Praise be to God. 17.

Praise be to God. 18.

Take your child.

I ask God to see he makes his parents proud.

Praise be to God. 19.

And may he live....

Twenty!

God is all-powerful.

Poor Sakina's broken heart.

Sheikh, what is the meaning of this?

Say, before the curse befalls him.

Sheikh, tell me he did not mean this.

Please, before the curse befalls him.

People, the prophesy is from God.

And everything is fated.

In the name of the Prophet, Sheikh.

The Prophet is sacred.

God's command is inevitable.

God is all-powerful.

God's command is inevitable.

God's command is inevitable.

God's command is inevitable.

God's command is inevitable.

I can't do this.

Death, and the word "death"...

...have come to scare me a great deal, Sakina.

I'll travel to Addis Ababa for a year or two.

I'll find work and send you money.

Money?

I don't need money, I need you here beside me.

You remember my brother, Abbas?

I still dream of him drowning in the Nile

with me just standing there, helpless.

You are strong, Sakina.

I can't do this.

Muzamil, son of death.

Muzamil, son of death.

Muzamil?

Eat.

I'm not hungry.

I want to go and play with the other boys.

Can I go with Gaiballah to the river?

The river? No.

Eat up and have your shower.

Muzamil?

Are you going to drown?

You waited till I fell asleep and went out?

How did Al Khalifa say I will die?

He did not say how.

By drowning?

Death is all the same.

I want my father.

I want my father.

I want my father.

Aunt Nafisa, how are you?

Still alive, thank God.

Eissa Fageri, how are you?

Hello. Hello, Sakina.

I need oil, lentils and beans.

Oil. Right.

No news from Alnoor?

Not much. He writes every now and then.

Shame on him, son of Amna.

Leaving you to your heavy burden.

Here are the beans.

And here's some soap.

- Put these on my tab. - OK.

- Peace be with you. - Go in peace.

Peace be upon you. Sakina, how are you?

Hello, Imam.

Praise be to God.

Muzamil has grown.

But his face looks pale.

I tell you what,

keeping him inside all the time is not right.

Let the child go out and play. Bring him to me to learn and read.

What's the good of knowledge with such a short life span?

A man who dies at 20,

is he a responsible man or a boy who is not accountable?

A responsible man.

Shouldn't that responsible man learn to read the Quran?

And pray?

And serve God's house?

What have you got to lose?

- Let's see. - She's got nothing to lose.

Well said.

"In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy."

"Competing for more distracts you."

"Until you go into your graves."

Great truth of God.

Muzamil. Come and sit down.

It's all right, Sakina. You can go now.

Read your board, boy.

"Competing for more distracts you

"until you go into your graves.

"You will come to know.

"No, indeed, in the end you will come to know.

"If only you knew for certain. You will most definitely see Hellfire."

Mum!

What?

Does the time I was in your belly count towards my life span?

My son has been in Saudi Arabia for so long. I miss him.

Why do they stay away so long? What does that life offer them?

Work, sister.

How are you, Muzamil?

Is that the stuff from Fageri's shop?

Put it in the kitchen.

First at the mosque and now at home?

Easy, so he doesn't get scared.

Do you know what that is over there?

No.

The Kambo.

A singer lives there. Her name is Set Alnesea.

I wish I had a voice like hers.

But the people there are bad. They do immoral things.

They do filthy stuff.

Filthy how?

The women there kiss men.

What's wrong with that?

Are you crazy?

It's wrong for a woman to kiss a man she doesn't know.

What if she knows him?

If she knows him and loves him, it's fine.

Better ask Sheikh Abdelgader.

"Until you go into your graves.

"No, indeed! You will come to know."

"No, indeed! You will come to know."

"No, indeed! You will come to know.

"No, indeed! In the end you will come to know."

Praise be to God, son. Continue memorising.

I'm going to Eissa's but I will return.

Son of death, let's play a fun game.

If you don't die today, you won't die at all.

No!

Let me go!

No!

Let me go!

No!

No!

Let me go!

I don't want to die!

I don't want to die! Let me go!

Let me go!

I don't want to die!

Muzamil.

Get up.

These years spent without you have been hard, Sakina.

All that running and those demeaning trials.

Whenever I intend to come back,

I get dragged to another country.

I arrived in Libya at the beginning of the month.

I hope it will be better than Addis Ababa, Kenya and Senegal.

Years have passed and I wish you'd reply.

I only hear about you from other people.

Take your boy and find Al Khalifa.

Maybe he can intercede with the Prophets that watch over us

and beg them to have mercy on us.

And if the boy asks about me,

don't say anything.

Is the Sheikh here?

- Peace be with you. - And also with you.

Say what you wish.

I am Sakina, daughter of Gadeen, from Sheikh Al Shafee's village.

They told me the Sheikh sits here at this time of year.

The Sheikh went to the Hajj three years ago.

He has not returned. He visits us in our dreams and visions.

For years

I did my ablutions and prayed daily

for him to visit me in my dreams.

But it's been so long.

Al Khalifa is our messenger in God's land

and God's land is his.

Tell me your wish.

This is my son, Muzamil.

Al Khalifa said he will die the day he turns 20.

I came to ask you, Al Khalifa and all God's righteous friends to intercede.

So that he may live and escape his fate.

Wait outside.

OK.

Come.

Al Khalifa never says a wrong thing,