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JOURNEY OF LOVE

Leave them to Demirci Bayram.

Tell him...

to repair all of them...

fix them carefully. Tell him to finish his work...

and not to step out of his shop before he's done with them.

Demirci Bayram Aga has gone hunting.

Why is the break after the 12th bead?

I do not know.

Have a seat. Sit.

It signifies the Twelve Imams.

But don't be surprised if you see it on the fifth too.

That represents our Prophet's household...

which consisted of five people.

One day I shall tell you about the prayer bead.

It holds a thousand secrets.

My sheikh...

The blacksmith's shop is closed.

I've brought back the gardening tools.

He must have gone hunting.

Go and fetch Demirci Bayram.

He is on Mount Akcal.

Don't lose time.

Go without a moment's delay.

Go and get him!

-Here is good, Bayram Aga. -Good, good.

We should feed the horses, they are hungry.

We should eat first, then I'll feed them.

I will light a fire. You go to sleep.

I'll pray first. Have you performed wudu?

I have. While you pray, I will look around.

Why will you look around?

Let us pray and sleep.

We'll be on our way before the day dawns.

You sleep, sir, even imagining these deer takes my sleep away.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

You deserve this.

Even if you lose your mind and go crazy, you deserve this.

In whose hands does your fate lie, Yunus Effendi?

Is this worth resigning as a qadi? Is this how you'll be saved?

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

Bayram Aga!

Bayram Aga!

Who is this here?

I don't know, sir.

Who is this?

Who is asking?

Who are you?

Yunus Efendi, what are you doing here?

I do not know.

Let's go.

The sheikh has summoned you.

Did you come all the way here for this, Yunus Efendi?

I do not know.

Since you came here facing the dangers of wild nature...

let us spend the night and see what the day brings.

My sheikh told me to take you take you there immediately.

You go, Yunus Efendi.

We will apologise to the Sheikh.

How can we return without even hunting?

Let us sleep first, Yunus Efendi.

What good would come of it even if we hit the road at this hour?

Yunus Efendi should get back to the lodge, sir.

Why bother? Let him sleep in his comfortable bed.

Let's sleep, Yunus Efendi, we will get going before the day dawns.

Husnu, take a blanket from the saddle.

Lay it there.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

La ilaha illallah. La ilaha illallah.

-Is Yunus not back? -Not yet, sheikh.

Welcome, welcome.

Yunus may not know his way around here.

Especially in the mountains.

I wish you had sent me there instead.

There is only one lock that a key can open, Molla.

Does every key open every lock?

Let's go, Bayram Aga.

We will see, once Husnu gets back.

Husnu!

Bayram Aga, there are two well-fed ones in the valley across.

They would feed the whole Nallihan!

We've strayed so far from Akcal just hearing their voices.

I should get back.

Forget about their voices, brother. I can see how well-fed they are!

Come on, Bayram Aga, let's not miss them!

You should go back to the lodge. All this effort shouldn't be in vain.

I will tell the Sheikh what is needed.

I came here all in vain.

Come on!

The Sheikh told to me to go and bring him.

Yunus Efendi, you may go. Bayram Aga will explain to the sheikh.

There is something fishy about this, Yunus Efendi.

JOURNEY OF LOVE

Go and fetch Demirci Bayram!

Don't lose time. Go and get him.

Only I didn't see the deer, Husnu!

Twice now, before you could see they ran off.

-Peace be upon you. -And upon you.

Has the ashura boiled, Ali Taygu?

It has, my sheikh.

Sisters.

Are the ornaments for our ashura ready?

They are, Sheikh Effendi.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Ya Shafi.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Ya Shafi.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Ya Shafi.

May it be blessed.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

You wait here.

What are you doing?

Don't.

Don't.

-You are dead! -Don't.

What do you want from me?

What have I done to you? What do you want from me?

Don't you know what I want?

-Don't you know what you did to me? -Okay, okay.

Okay, you don't owe me.

Don't think it is because I fear.

It is solely because you are my wife's brother.

Now shoot the arrow, if you have the heart.

Or lay the arrow and bow down.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Bring in the pot, Kasim.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Knock on every door.

Do not neglect it, even if no one answers.

Leave some even for the unanswered doors...

so that Hazrat Hussain should be remembered.

May it bring health. Enjoy.

Thank you, sisters.

Put that bow down.

Do you think I believe your stories?

-Do you take me for a fool? -Don't.

Even if I spare your life...

you won't spare mine!

Don't.

Don't.

Don't!

Don't!

Don't do this, Husnu Aga!

Stop. Let it go.

Let the traitor go.

Where are you going, Yunus Efendi? Where are you going?

Let that traitor go.

Lie down.

You are smiling, father. You seem so happy.

I hope it is for good reasons.

Sometimes we are happy not because good things happen...

but because bad things don't happen, dear.

Get a pot and go, Cagri and you will give them out.

People wait for Ashura.

Don't you take it out!

Break the end.

Don't be afraid.

Sooner or later...

he will be caught.

Don't tell anyone what's happened, Yunus Efendi.

It's a family matter.

I can't wash my dirty linen in public.

We will solve it within the family.

People gossip.

Promise me.

You won't tell this to the sheikh.

What say you, Qadi Efendi?

Hiding justice is a sin.

Lean on me.

-Cagri friend! -Yes, Kasim Aga?

Is Yunus Efendi back? Have you seen him?

I haven't, sir.

-I can check the courtyard. -No need.

Ashura has boiled. Get ready, friend.

Our Sheikh has ordered us to give it out to everyone.

Of course.

God.

Are the dervishes giving out our ashura, Kasim?

As you ordered, they are not leaving anyone out.

That's good.

Are the people coming?

They are filling the courtyard.

It has been a prosperous year, mashallah.

Tell me, molla.

Say it.

Yunus has not yet returned, sir.

He will, he will.

He will come back.

He has a unique sense of duty.

Kira, have you washed them?

I have, father.

We're kind of the host here, let's not keep Sheikh Tapduk waiting.

What's happened? What is this?

-I do not know. -Kira, quick, girl, quick!

What happened, Bayram Effendi?

-We were hunting, Mikel Effendi. -Let it go.

It was a hunter's arrow.

Is there any order left? It's not clear who's the hunter, who's the prey.

Here, bite this. Bite.

Only the one who's been shot understands the deer.

Hold on, just a little longer.

Put them down.

Bring me some gauze.

We were just going to the lodge for Ashura.

You came right on time.

If Yunus Efendi...

hadn't encountered me, I would have bled to death.

No one bleeds to death, they die because it's their time.

Kira!

Give it to me, girl.

Hold still.

Almost done.

Hold it tight.

Tight.

It's good to go, Bayram Effendi. Be careful though.

You should keep the wound covered.

Come on, Kira.

Thank God for sending you, Yunus Efendi.

Had it not been for you, what would have become of me?

I do not know.

We should think of not the one who arrives but the one who sends him.

It wasn't a coincidence up on the mountain.

We missed Ashura this year.

-Let me go home. -Hold on, stay there.

We have things to do.

I can't face the sheikh without completing my mission.

Let my pain pass a little we will do it in the morning.

No!

I will go and get the gardening tools from the lodge.

I don't know how I'll manage it without being seen.

Well, this is all, Bayram Aga. Now, you go and rest.

God bless you, Mikel Effendi.

May you prosper.

Kira, come on, girl, we are late for the lodge!

Yunus Efendi, are you not coming to the lodge?

I do not know.

Get well soon.

Let's go.

Kira, will you stay at Bacim Sultan's or come back home with me?

-Is it okay if I stay? -Of course, dear.

Tapduk Efendi is my friend. Our doors are always open to each other.

Good, if I'm to stay I'll let you know after the gathering.

Okay, let's go then.

Go.

I seek refuge with God from the pelted Satan.

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Yâ-Sĩn.

By the Quran, rich in wisdom!

You ˹O Prophet˺ are truly one of the messengers...

upon the Straight Path.

˹This is˺ a revelation from the Almighty, Most Merciful...

so that you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned...

Welcome.

-Hasn't Uncle Mikel come? -He has.

I returned so that I could come with him. Is it crowded?

Sisters that stay for the gathering.

I have things to tell you.

Mother is reading Ya-sin. You go, I will join you.

I want to join in.

La ilaha illallah.

Shoo!

Go!

Go!

May God show you prosperous days, Hanim Ana.

To us all, Hatice Hatun, come on let's not keep him waiting.

It's time for prayer.

Tell me, what is it?

Even if I tell you, you won't believe what I saw.

The gathering will start, tell me so I don't wonder anymore.

Yunus Efendi came to my father's consulting room.

-What time? -When I went home, daytime.

What's wrong with him? He is not ill, I hope?

No, not for himself. He brought in Demirci Bayram Effendi.

He was shot with an arrow by a hunter.

Tell me, what else happened? What did you hear and see?

Amen.

God!

Welcome, friends.

Sisters, you are welcome, as well.

You, too, are welcome, Ertegun Efendi.

Thank you, my sheikh.

Are we missing out on anyone?

No, sheikh, no.

You are welcome, too, brother Huseyin.

Thank you, sheikh. It's been a while.

Ashura day has finally caught up to its name, brother Huseyin.

Why do you stay so behind, doctor?

Come close so that we can see your lovely face.

One must get on well with doctors.

Doctors are Azrael's proxies.

They throw 40 geese in 40 different pots...

and boil them for 40 days.

For what?

Can one discipline one's ego without burning it?

The goose symbolises the self.

It wants food, it wants comfort.

It desires too much of everything.

That goose runs after anything worldly.

Now, hold it and put it in a pot.

See if it'll boil.

We add 40 types of nuts into ashura...

and keep boiling it in pots.

40 is just an anology.

Friends add just 12 kinds of nuts.

I've already told you that it represents the 12 Imams.

What do these 12 Imams do?

Who are they?

What is their job?

They represent the oneness of God.

Oh, well!

They never say...

'Come here!'

'I perform miracles'.

What did Hazrat Ahmad Yasawi, peace be upon him, say?

"They wear a turban and search for disciples..."

"alas, they have no knowledge..."

"those doomsday sheikhs."

"They embrace the world,"

"but run away when they are challenged,"

"They keep spreading disbelief, those doomsday sheikhs."

The ancestors of those doomsday sheikhs...

shed Hazrat Hussain's blood...

on the soil of Karbala.

Karbala is such a place...

agony and affliction.

The land of agony and affliction.

Though his grandfather, God's messenger...

had told him that this would happen.

"I come from the soil, my essence is from the soil,"

"I will return to the soil,"

"My soul yearns to reach for God."

Everything...

yearns to reach Him.

Would Master Yasawi ever say a word in vain?

When they reached Karbala...

Hazrat Imam Hussain turned to one of his companions...

and asked him...

"Where is this place?"

"What's the name of this land?"

"Karbala," the man answered.

Hazrat Huseyin, hearing the answer, got off his camel.

Tearfully, he said: "God..."

"I take shelter in you, from agony and affliction,"

"This is where our blood will be shed," he said to his companions.

The cruel ones thought that they would kill him.

He would yearn to reach God.

To reach the secret of the oneness of God.

Don't tell anyone what's happened, Yunus Efendi.

It's a family matter.

I can't wash my dirty linen in public.

I can't face the sheikh without completing my mission.

What will I tell my sheikh?

I remember what's happened.

I don't know how come that qadi ended up being a dervish!

I remember the day he came to Nallihan.

He came to my father's consulting room.

My mum said he was educated in Karatay Madrasa.

That must be the reason...

why they say he is rather arrogant.

He raided the lodge saying they were searching for a suspect.

That's what I'm saying!

Now he has put everything aside...

he struggles to complete...

the mission the Sheikh Father has given him.

Remember how Sheikh Father gave him the tools and sent him off?

Now he wants to complete that mission...

and face him so.

Hanim Ana will be mad. People come from other villages for it.

But we miss the gathering under the same roof!

Come on, Kira, you go, I'll be there soon.

I will!

Well...

nothing remains in this mortal world.

There he was...

and now he's gone.

I don't want to sadden you...

with Hazrat Hussain's martyrdom.

The rest can be heard in the elegy.

Let us hearken it.

Oh, God!

A dog is just what we need!

Shut up! Shut up.

Shut up!

Shut up! Shut up!

Shoo!

Shoo!

I don't know why it keeps barking.

It must be hungry.

You return to the gathering.

I'll get the food for it.

Allahu akbar Allahu akbar.

Allahu akbar Allahu akbar.

I do not know.

Tell me, woman.

What's this urgent matter?

Kececi Azmi had a matter.

I heard it from ladies.

So he had. He isn't dead.

Women are gossiping about it, husband.

What can we do, woman? So, it is.

Shall we tell them it's a sin?

Do you think they know not what they do?

They do.

But Azmi Aga is keeping his wife from coming to the gathering.

I don't know what should be done.

I just wanted to let you know.

Good.

Where is Bacim? Is she not up yet?

She is already up.

Studying.

-Peace be upon you. -And upon you.

May you have a blessed morning, sir.

Let us live and see.

Is Yunus back?

I've just checked his room, sheikh. He is not back yet.

He will be back. He will.

I am worried that something bad might have happened to him.

One only worries about one's friends.

Have you brought them back, Yunus?

Yes, sheikh, I have.

So you've given up on the 'I do not know' dhikr.

Of course, not, sheikh.

You see to the morning sermon, Kasim.

Come here, come along.

Is Bayram Aga well enough to forge the tools?

His apprentices have forged them.

Doctor Mikel Effendi told me. Good.

What matters is to complete the mission.

Then, I must assign you a new duty.

Here, take this.

This shall be your new mission.

You'll take care of Karabas.

Until she is tamed, you are responsible for her.