Detention Letter (جواب اعتقال)

Turn off your lights, sir.

Stop!

-Peace be upon you! -And you!

-Where are you coming from? -The North Coast.

-Hacienda. -Driver's licenses and IDs.

Yes, sir.

DESPICABLE TERRORIST ATTACK BUT EGYPT WILL NOT KNEEL DOWN

GIZA GOVERNORATE DOKKI DISTRICT

...these terrorist bombings target Egypt's security and stability.

Godless sons of bitches!

-What do they want for the country? -And they claim to speak for God!

God help us, the protector!

Your anise tea, Mr. Khalid.

Good morning, Minister. Good morning, Mr. Kamal.

Sit down.

Mohamed Abdel Aziz, the minister asked for you by name.

It's an honor, sir!

What do you think about what happened, Mohamed?

It will keep happening unless we control the situation.

Why can't we control the situation?

The advantage these people have over us isn't intelligence or strength.

Their advantage is the element of anonymity.

These are people we are in the dark about. We, at Interior Affairs,

have fixed locations, checkpoints and uniforms that make us an easy target.

They know us. We don't know them.

We do know them, Mohamed.

Everyone knows them, sir. But there's no evidence.

There's no incriminating evidence.

They make people think that we overreact in our responses,

or break the law by keeping them in custody,

or that we blame any security flaw on them to justify our bad management of things.

My apologies, sir. I'm obviously speaking from their perspective.

What's your plan, Kamal?

Arrest all Brotherhood leaders.

Excuse me, Mr. Kamal, but it would play out like it always does.

They'll be out in a few days, a year or two at most.

What's your plan?

I wanna catch just one of them in the act confessing,

videotape it and dispel all doubt.

If we agree on that game plan, we'll then proceed as Mr. Kamal suggested.

Arrest and interrogate their leaders, then release them,

keeping them in the dark about this game-changer.

What do you think, Kamal?

If you were a less competent officer, I would've doubted your plan.

You've taught me well, sir!

-Peace be upon you! -Peace and blessings upon you too!

The Brothers' respect for you increases every single day, Khalid.

Where's my money?

You "love wealth with excess", Khalid.

I'm obeying Allah and his messenger, fighting in his way.

"Money and children are the joys of this life."

I'm single with no children.

To have no money and no children is regrettable in the eyes of God.

Where's my money?

It was placed in your car trunk before I even got here.

Are you going to continue to be childless?

Is your cousin the only one you wish to marry?

DAR Al OLUM

Dr. Fatima, are you angry with me?

Any more talking in my lectures and you're out.

I'm sorry, it won't happen again. Okay?

All right.

Should a professor like me be waiting outside your door for 30 minutes?

-Why were you waiting there? -Should I interrupt your class

and ask you if you've told your father yet?

I would've said, "Not yet."

If you don't get me an appointment with him, I'll come over unannounced.

It'll be up to you to let us in or turn us away.

We'd turn you away.

"He who is dissatisfied with my rule or impatient with the trials of life

can leave my Earth and my Heaven and find another god."

Could you leave his Earth and his Heaven?

If you could, go find another god.

We have a call.

Amira from Monufia.

Go ahead, Sister Amira.

Sheik Mustafa, what do you think of the terrorist attack yesterday?

Excuse me?

What do you think of the terrorist attack yesterday?

I denounce and condemn it, Amira.

I denounce and condemn it!

Praise be to Allah. We praise him and seek his help and forgiveness.

We seek refuge in him from the evils of people and their wicked deeds

May God grant peace and honor to Muhammad among the early generations,

and among the later generations,

and among the Exalted Assembly of Angels

-until the Day of Judgement. -Peace be upon him!

Ja'far Al-Sadiq detailed that the Prophet sent a detachment to war.

When they came back,

he said, "Welcome are you who returned from the small holy war

to join the great holy war."

He was asked, "What's the great holy war?"

"The battle against the self," he said.

So, Brothers, there are two types of holy wars.

The first is the small one.

It is armed fighting to uphold the message of Islam.

-Allah is great! -To uphold its rituals.

-Allah is great! -To institute Islamic law.

Allah is great!

Allah said...

"Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.

But you can dislike something that is good for you,

and you can like something that is bad for you.

What you don't know, God does."

What we've done has shaken the whole country.

Interior Affairs know for sure that we were behind it.

It is expected that we'll be arrested, one after another.

It'll be okay.

The punch we threw at the government was a bit too heavy.

You all understand, no matter how large the pressures are,

or how bad the torture is,

we are to respond in only one way.

God bless you all.

Saad!

Yes, Sheik Khalid?

Where's my brother, Ahmad?

Attending a lecture with Sheik Mustafa.

We do not mean a specific government.

We're speaking generally.

For example, when Imam Ahmad was asked about Al-Ma'mun

-and accused him of infidelity-- -That's not true, Sheik Mustafa.

Imam Ahmad never accused him of that, or called for rebellion.

Is it okay to interrupt the imam in the middle of a lecture, Sheik Ahmad?

A man interrupted Imam Al-Baz with a question once.

He might have thought that that wasn't acceptable.

That man who interrupted Imam Al-Baz,

was his ringtone as cheerful as yours, Sheikh Ahmad?

Let's go, Sheik Mustafa.

In a severe blow, a security source at the Ministry of Interior told us...

In a statement from the Ministry of Interior...

The Public Prosecution Office stated...

National Security services continue to...

Why don't you listen to me?

I told you never to attend Sheik Mustafa's lectures!

What if they had arrested you and thrown you in some detention camp?

Why are you so afraid of Sheik Mustafa's lectures

when he has a hundred TV shows that millions of people watch?

If what he taught in those lectures was the same as what he said on TV,

I wouldn't mind.

Why don't you want me to be like you?

I pray that you would be like me. I'm just a devoted man of religion.

So, all the Brothers are liars, then?

You have a stronger sway over the Brothers than Sheik Abdullah himself now.

Stop treating me like a child.

Saad!

Saad!

Yes, sir!

Take Ahmad to Sheik Samaha.

Keep him there until I say otherwise.

Tell me you're not the commander of the Brotherhood's military.

I swear I'm not the commander of its military.

God forgive me.

What about your cousin, Khalid?

I can't believe you're still talking about him!

That same lying, hypocritical Khalid?

The reason we've been in police stations

and subjected to investigations our whole lives?

Khalid, who's kept me imprisoned my whole life,

as if he was my father, and not you?

I swear to God, it's not fair!

Some of your men already admitted to it.

For 30 years,

the authorities have asked the same questions.

Babbling away.

You should make some changes.

I have nothing to say to you. You're wasting your time with me.

I think we're gonna be here a while, so let me request something.

Have them bring me a pack of Marlboro Reds and a couple spoons of sugar for the tea.

A famous preacher like you should be smarter than to ask such a question.

Fine, I won't ask why I've been arrested, but if you'd allow me

one simple question, Mr. Kamal...

You've been investigating me for 30 years, asking the exact same questions.

Why, today of all days,

do you think I'll give you different answers?

There's no god but Allah.

We won't get anywhere with these people.

Why are you so hopeless, Mr. Mohamed? Should we not question anyone at all then?

We should question the bombers themselves.

You're free to issue an arrest warrant for Khalid Eldigwy if you like.

I don't understand why we let him run free.

I'll tell you why over a cup of tea.

What does that mean, Uncle?

I don't know what to do, Khalid!

You're not being fair to her, Son!

I want to talk to her.

You've talked to her a hundred times before.

This will be the last time, God willing.

I know that our situation isn't normal,

but no one gets to choose their luck.

I don't fear for myself.

I'm an old man.

I don't need a bullet from Khalid to kill me.

I fear for you.

Khalid is not stable.

His heart is filled with cruelty.

The things he's suffered in life have turned him into stone.

I could see what his life would be like before he was even born.

His father was Ismail Eldigwy.

He was a simple man...

working as a servant for Sheik Abdullah,