The Assassins (الحشاشين)

The Fatimids were consumed by famine

What led them to this?

Sedition!

Are people that hungry!

The people are struggling, they got used to hunger

when things get worse, they will eat anything.

Amidst the poverty and disease

and hunger, Al-Sabbah started his dawah

Every star in the sky has a meaning, and every good vision has an interpretation

-Dawah to the unknown. -and ask the stranger, he will answer.

for the sake of unknown

Dawah of loyalty to an absent Imam

for a goal that no one knows

It's okay to stay because you're from the same school of thought

but as for meeting our lord the Imam

-It's refused. -Al-Sabbah sought

to meet with the Fatimid Caliph Al-Mustansir Billah

for the allegiance

Hassan faced a major hurdle in his dawah

It's the powerful minister, Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

Who saved Cairo from the famine

Hassan didn't matter to Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

who mattered to him was whoever stands between him

and the Inauguration of his daughter's husband, Al-Musta'li

as the Caliph after Al-Mustansir’s death

Get off your horse, you jerk widower.

While Hassan was starting his journey filled with fear and danger

Will you speak or shall we assume you're a liar

and leave?

or you would lie

and I behead you?

To whom is the Caliphate?

A question that troubles my lady's mind.

May life and destiny be prolonged with my lady

but she's afraid to become a silent mother after all these years

after the Caliph's death

and the minister manipulates the Caliphate

Omar Khayyam

investigating and exploring the meaning of life

Who is more beautiful?

You or your voice?

The minister Nizam Al-Mulk

is working to install the new sultan on his throne.

"Episode Three" "Al-Dawah al-Nizariyyah"

What would you say after God granted me victory and you became at my mercy?

What punishment would you choose, uncle?

I was deceived

your cousins deceived me and made me turn against you

they abandoned me after all of them declared their loyalty to me

after my defeat

they showed they were all on your side.

What's your proof?

Between my belly button and belt

there is a message

it contains all their names

and the evidence of their betrayal.

Open it, Nizam Al-Mulk

and say the names of the traitors.

My lord

I think you should be patient

you should first summon them and then decide.

"Cairo" "Capital of the Fatimid state"

My lord!

"Al-Mustansir Billah" "The Fatimid Caliph"

Did you really healed my mother?

For sure, my lord, has seen her with his own eyes.

-Where are you from? -From the land of Persia

from the land of Rey.

You traveled all this distance

to see me?

Everything is worth it for the sake of seeing the Imam.

Whoever sees you, feels as if they've entered heaven, my lord.

Do you have a specific request?

Pledging to my lord.

That's my request and my life's dream.

A pledge to serve him and his cause

and I pledge to the Imam after him

with my body, spirit, and self

exoteric and esoteric.

-Your pledge is accepted… -Hassan Al-Sabbah, my lord.

May I ask you a question, my lord?

Ask.

Who is the Caliph after my lord?

My son Nizar.

Thanks be to God.

So, Hassan

how is our dawah doing in your homeland?

The dawah is very widespread in villages, in the suburbs and everywhere.

It's true that whoever get caught from us gets tortured

but fidelity in hearts is limitless.

I heard that the Seljuks have reached the borders of China

They defeated the Crusaders in the Battle of Manzikert.

Even if they ruled the whole world, my lord

their dawah is void and their school of thought is corrupted.

All their victories

are worth nothing.

My lord, Minister Badr El-Deen Al-Jamali

This is Hassan Al-Sabbah, Badr.

Our preacher in the lands of Persia

receive and treat him hospitably

he is under my protection

and my satisfaction

he is a man of extraordinary acts

my mother was healed at his hands.

As you command, my lord.

Are you the Sultan's jester?

But this is a demeaning job.

No, it's not demeaning

I'm sitting here because I am the Sultan's jester

Do you know if I was the Sultan's sorrow-maker

where would I be?

-Where? -Nowhere, I would disappear

those who sadden the Sultan disappear.

I am not comfortable.

It's normal.

Do you think this food could be poisoned?

I don't think so.

The Sultan will kill us for sure, but not in such a lowly manner.

Then how would they kill us?

Does it matter to you?

Don't be afraid

he knows our troops are outside

I don't think he's that foolish.

The Sultan Malik-Shah's toast.

-The Sultan's toast. -The Sultan's toast.

All of you are part of the sultan's household

but my uncle says some of you were conspiring with him

then you abandoned him and declared their loyalty to me

-It didn’t happen! -That's a lie!

-It didn't happen. -Liar!

-Lie. -None of us is a traitor.

-Liar. -No no no.

Don't believe him.

-It didn't happen. -Liar.

None of us is a traitor.

This letter in my hand

has the traitors' names

sealed

as soon as it is opened

their names will all be revealed

and their fate

will be death!

but…

but…

my Lord, the Sultan, ordered

that the letter must not be opened

and the traitors' names

remain a secret

so that each of them

lives the rest of his life knowing his truth

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah! -Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah! -Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

-Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah! -Long live the Sultan, Malik-Shah!

Like that, my Lord

you will guarantee their loyalty until the last day of their lives

of course, they now think I am whispering their names

and they are dying to know

Long live our lord, the Sultan!

and you, uncle

You are the only one who fought and faced me openly

for that, your fate will be in my hands

in honor to you.

Long live our lord, the Sultan!

For the greatness of the Sultanate

and consolidating the rule of my Lord, the Sultan

a purge is necessary

a purge

to consolidate our Lord's rule