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THE JOURNEY OF LOVE

Bring me a cup of water, Kasim.

You had best...

become a qadi again.

There is a path for everyone.

You had best become a qadi again.

I've completed every mission you have given me.

I resigned as a cadi...

and cleaned the toilets in the lodge.

I strolled the streets of Nallihan...

with the tools on my back…

I searched for a dog like a mad man in front of everyone.

I didn't complain that it hurt my pride.

Well, it did but I didn't care.

I've never failed to complete every mission you assigned to me.

I found neither what I'd been looking for...

nor the treatment I'd expected.

Son!

I never asked you to resign as a cadi.

I am not a doomsday sheikh.

I am not looking for disciples.

I do not invite anyone.

They're not on the path of God,

so who am I to invite them saying that I'm on the right path?

What is so special about us?

I am leaving, sheikh.

Those who come are welcome.

I wish Godspeed for those who leave, Yunus.

Kasim.

You hold the gathering tonight.

Bismillah.

Please don't exit and reenter during the gathering...

there may be some who don't want to miss...

the gist of what the sheikh talks about.

Disturbing one's peace is not nice.

In our last session, we discussed things that violate prayers.

Tonight we will talk about how a Muslim should be.

Who is a Muslim?

Firstly...

a Muslim is someone who recites the Shahadah.

So...

What makes a Muslim...

different from everyone else?

If you disregard the way he is dressed...

how can you tell that someone is a Muslim?

Aha! A Muslim is someone who hurts none...

with his words and his actions.

If you'll keep talking, I shall keep quiet, Gungor Effendi.

It seems if I don't force you out...

you won't ever leave the lodge.

I have told you, Kira.

I have the will neither to wander about nor to study.

I know the reason for this.

What is it?

Tell me so I will know the reason, too.

You ask but you'll get mad when I tell you.

Tell me, I won't.

You know it too.

It's Yunus' departure that makes you sad.

What does it have to do with him?

They say walls have ears.

I'm so afraid of rumours.

Rumours are about things that didn't happen.

You would shoot me down in flames.

Why is that?

Do you Turks consider loving someone wrong?

Why would we?

So what? Is it forbidden for a sheikh's daughter to marry a dervish?

Instead of spending so much energy on my case...

you tell me, is it prohibited in your religion...

to get married? Why are you still single?

If I had someone in my heart as you do, I wouldn't waste a second!

I swear rumours will start, Kira.

Haven't you heard the saying that the walls have ears?

CADI CHAMBERS, KONYA

-Peace be upon you. -And upon you.

I hope you remember me.

From Aksaray, right?

Let me guess. You were a guard, right?

You wanted to be appointed?

I was the Qadi of Nallihan, sir.

For three months I've been coming here.

It's not only you.

They all come from all over the country.

Cadis ask for appointments, regents wait for their turns.

There are a lot of them!

I am sorry.

It's okay.

I requested to resume my position.

I do remember now.

But...

Chief Cadi Hazrat was really busy.

I have been waiting for an answer for three months now, sir.

You say that he is busy...

but I cannot wait any longer.

If he is here, I would like to see him.

Wait here.

The decision will be made tomorrow, Yunus Effendi.

About resuming my position or my new place of service?

Let's first wait for the approval of your resuming the position.

He wouldn't let you resume the position for nothing.

There are others just like you.

How are you, Karabas?

You are well, I hope?

Oh, you're here, father?

-Did you go to Mikel Effendi? -I did, father.

He says I'm depressed, father.

He says it must be the weather.

Did he give you any medicine?

He sent me to the herbalist.

I got what he wanted with Kira.

He boiled them and made a cure from their essences in a bottle.

He left this in his place and just went off.

Who, father?

Yunus.

Welcome, Yunus Effendi.

Thank you, sir.

You requested to resume your previous position three months ago.

Yes, sir.

We appoint some cadis from one place to another...

with the personal order...

of Grand Vizier Mu'in al-Din Pervane.

We appoint new people...

to positions that are emptied for various reasons.

You used to serve in Nallihan?

Yes.

Yunus Efendi.

It is permissible that you resume your position.

They will tell you your new post tomorrow.

May God bless you.

May all you do become blissful.

You said you'd served in Nallihan, Yunus Effendi.

Then maybe you would know him.

Do you know a Tapduk Emre who is a lodge sheikh in Nallihan?

I do, sir.

Is he an influential figure?

He is, sir.

The recently appointed Cadi Ilyas Effendi...

asks our permission to raid the lodge.

Since you did your duty in Nallihan, I wanted to ask you.

What is it, clerk?

Sir...

The former Cadi of Nallihan waiting to resume his position.

I remember.

He was here yesterday.

What was his name?

Yunus, sir, Yunus.

What about him?

He hasn't shown up to claim his license.

I thought he'd been waiting for it for three months.

I don't understand, as well, sir.

He came here every single day.

Now his papers are ready but he isn't present.

Our sheikh has not preached for months.

Everyone's been asking after him, sir.

When we were gardening the villagers asked one by one.

The Ahis in the market ask a lot.

Everyone is talking about the sheikh not preaching anymore.

Don't you greet us anymore, Guyende?

Yunus is back.

Cadi Yunus?!

-Where did you see him? -In the marketplace.

-Why did you come back? -Yunus is back.

Cadi Yunus?

-Where did you see him? -In the marketplace.

Yunus Effendi!

Welcome.

What can I do for you?

I would like to see Cadi Effendi.

Ilyas Effendi is in his office.

Yunus.

THE JOURNEY OF LOVE

So you left without finding out where you were appointed to?

I need your help.

At your service, Yunus!

We were just kids when we started the madrasah.

You are my friend.

I heard that you were investigating Sheikh Tapduk Emre.

I heard it from Chief Qadi.

In Konya.

Well, why does this concern you?

I'd like to see my sheikh.

I have important news to break to him.

Molla Kasim would like to see you, father.

Let him in, dear.

May I, sheikh?

Let us boil some bulgur, dear.

I've heard something, sheikh.

From Guyende.

He was back from the marketplace.

What goes out must come back.

Cadi Yunus has returned.

Yunus Guyende has returned.

So has Cadi Yunus.

What goes out must come back, Kasim.

Just look up and see.

The moon turns, the sun turns, the stars turn, planets turn.

The universe turns.

All the heavens turn.

Of course, he did! All realms turn. Wouldn't Yunus return?

But not to our lodge, sheikh. He returned to Nallihan.

I did not mention the lodge, son.

I said he'd return.

Just wait.

You will return, we will return.

And we think our lodge is in Nallihan, Kasim.

I'd like to give you a task, Kasim.

At your service, sheikh.

That is just not possible, Yunus!

Why shouldn't I implement the law just because you know him?

I do not only know him.

I vouch for him.

I heard you were frequenting his lodge.

But you speak as if you were his disciple.

We have been like two brothers for so very long.

For my sake, Ilyas.

This is an affair of state, Yunus.

What's it got to do with our brotherhood?

Didn't we share the same dreams in the madrasah?

We weren't going to submit to any requests.

We were going to implement Sharia as it is.

We were going to speak up for the people...

not just for Beys and Sheikhs.

We were going to be a Seljuk Qadi and not a Mongolian one.

Then tell me what he is accused of.

Why are you pushing me, Yunus?

You wouldn't tell me if you were in my shoes.

It is nothing but slander.

All of it.

How can you say it's slander without even knowing what it is?

Isn't it late, dear?

For what, mother?

Didn't you tell me you were going to Kira's?

It slipped my mind.

I was caught up in my work.

Let's go out together.

I’m going to see Gulsum Baci.

Let's not go, mother.

You asked for my permission and now you don't want to go.

I feel tired out.

It has been months.

You are so depressed and exhausted.

Hasn't Mikel Effendi's potion helped?

It has, mother.

It is slander.

Whoever said this...

it is slander.

The Yunus I've known wouldn't say anything like this.

Remember?

We were educated at madrasa.

We don't have anything to do...

with dervish convents and self-appointed sheikhs!

We are...

men of science.

Forget about it.

We follow our superiors' orders!

Are our superiors the law?

Why are you pushing me, Yunus?

What do you want from me?

Are you telling me to ignore the crime and not to investigate it?

I told you...

the order from Konya isn't arguable.

We cannot contradict our superiors.

Our superiors have One Superior, too Ilyas Effendi.

Considering both of us were educated in the madrasah...

we're supposed to know this.

Do you implement the law by listening to a false informant?

Who is the informant?

At least tell me this.

Look, Yunus!

Since your reappointment is accepted...

I advise you not to waste time.

Go back to Konya.

Go!

And get your license.

I still remember. My sheikh approached me.

He said, "Bayram,".

"Fix our gardening tools,".

But he brought no tool to fix.

Your brother hunted me like a pig.

Turns out I wasn't the hunter, but the very prey itself.

That's why he sent Yunus Effendi after us.

I got caught at a very bad time.

Is anything the matter, my friend?

No, Bayram Aga.

Have some of our sherbet. It'll do you good.

God give you prosperity, Bayram Aga. I need to go to the Ahi office.

My friend.

Is our sheikh determined not to preach again?

He did not say anything.

Ahis and women have been asking.

They wonder why our Sheikh doesn't preach anymore.

I don't know, Bayram Aga.

I don't know when he changes his mind.

We are all waiting.

Excuse me, sir.

-Who is this dervish, Bayram Aga? -Consider him as our sheikh's successor.

If he asks for anything, you treat him properly.

I know, sir, I have to keep good relations with the lodge.

Did your good-for-nothing master teach you this?

Neither good nor bad.

Keep your relations as you keep with me.

As you wish, sir.

He who faces any hardship must know it's the road, not the companion.

Very few things I believe are visible to the human eye.

Especially with my failing eyes, which see even less.

What can I get you, sir?

I'd like to ask you something, father.

What is it, my dear? Ask away.

Don't dervishes ever marry?

Well, I wonder what makes you ask particularly this question!

If a dervish in a lodge falls in love or a girl falls in love with a dervish...

Half of Nallihan, even all the people in the marketplace...

are Tapduk Efendi's dervishes, dear.

Of course, they can get married.

They aren't like Catholic priests.

Then what happens if a girl marries a dervish?

If they love each other, it's Paradise but if they don't then, it's hell.

Aside from all this...

who is the reason of your question?

I need to visit Bacim, father.

-I thought she was coming here. -No. She can't.

I need to go immediately.

Now I know who the girl is.

Tell me who the dervish is.

I went and delivered your order to Mesut Aga, my sheikh.

Not my order but request.

Kindness is the key to life.

Haven't you got any other information?

I ran into Zahireci Remzi. He says there's been a misunderstanding.

"I can't have peace without sorting this out with my sheikh."

He wishes to see you this evening.

Tell him to come later.

For I wait for someone else this evening.

-Welcome, my dear. -Thank you, Hanim Ana.

-Where is Bacim? -She's back there.

-Kira. -If you don't come, I will.

Have a seat.

I feel so exhausted.

Have I got bright news for you!

How can you know what is bright for me?

Yunus.

He's back. I saw him in the marketplace.

I know already.

-Dervishes were talking about him. -Is he back in the lodge?

Well, I don't think so.

Maybe he has some business.

Maybe he stops by the lodge while here.

We're friends. How can I not know while it's right in front of me?

-Do you think I don't understand, Bacim? -What? What is there to understand?

Your tongue denies it but your eyes deny your tongue.

I am not denying anything, Kira!

You just make up things that never happened.

If you don't deny it, I won't make up anything.

Amin.

Ya Allah!

So, tell me.

What do they say about us?

You are always here and there.

Tell me what they talk about.

They ask why you no longer preach, sheikh.

Everybody asks us, my sheikh.

All Nallihan’s people talk about this.

And what do you answer, Gungor?

As long as they don't slander us...

let them say anything they like, Ali.

Let them do what they want...

as long as they don't libel us.

One day, Imam Shafi was walking...

in the streets of Baghdad with his students.

One of his students happens to see...

two people arguing over a religious matter.

One of them was trying to justify himself...

by saying, "Look, my friend, even Imam Shafi himself..."

"does and recommends exactly as I do regarding this matter."

Of course, he doesn't know Shafi. He only heard his name.

Hearing this, the student approaches and asks what they were discussing.

The arguers tell him what it's all about.

The student is baffled and says, "Oh, brother..."

"the Imam neither does nor says anything like this."

He tries to intervene but the man keeps insisting.

The student heads back.

He sees Imam Shafi in his room and says...

"O sheikh, I've witnessed something."

"Some man was speaking ill of you."

"Clearly, he was slandering you."

"I warned him but he didn't listen."

Upon this, Imam Shafi decides to go and see for himself.

He arrives where the slanderer is.

He does not say that he is Imam Shafi at first.

Just like his student he tells the man that he was mistaken...

that the Imam wouldn't say or do anything like that.

But the slanderer scolds the Imam too, and tells him to go away.

He insists that Imam Shafi says and does exactly as he says.

Seeing there is no other choice, Imam Shafi reveals himself.

"Brother, I am Shafi and I did not say or do anything like that."

But the slanderer is not convinced yet again.

"Who are you to tell me? You can't be Shafi himself!"

"Shafi is someone else and what I say is true!"

Wilful ignorance.

We must try to find out about the fact of the matter.

It's easy to talk but one must lift the curtains and take a look.

All that glitters is not gold.

Isn't my dear Guyende as precious as gold?

Very kind of you, my sheikh.

Well...

come on now.

Leave the old man alone.

Welcome.

Welcome, Yunus Efendi.

Thank you.

Peace be upon you.

And upon you.

-Welcome, Yunus -Thank you.

Come, come closer.

I can't see very well anymore.

Did you see Karabas outside?

I did.

You obviously came here to say something. Tell me.

There is a vicious slander about you.

So what? People say anything.

But there is no truth to that slander.

The qadi wishes to start an investigation into you.

Maybe you should do something about it while you have time.

You care about my life, son, thank you.

But does my life belong to me that I should care about it?

I do not give or take what is not mine.

But like everyone, I have a body too.

If someone wishes to take it then he should come and take it.

Let him unburden me of this carcass that I've been carrying.

The qadi has asked for permission from the Chief Qadi in Konya.

I am afraid he might harm you.

Don’t mind about me, mind your own life. Save your own life first.

Please excuse me then.

Stay here, be my guest.

I'm out of time. I need to go back to Konya tonight.

You will arrive, sooner or later.

If one sticks to the road, one will reach there if one is off the road, one will lose oneself.

You will reach there, yes, you will.

Well...

What did you do in Konya? How did you like the city?

-I kept waiting. -We all wait, son.

Who doesn't wait for tomorrow?

Come on now, Godspeed.

Do not bother yourself with my life.

Peace be upon you.

And upon you.

He says that he was young, 18 years old at most.

-Welcome back, Yunus. -Thank you.

-Welcome, Yunus Efendi. -Many thanks.

-We heard that you were in Konya. -I was.

I have never been to the capital Konya.

I've been there once. When the army came back from the Crimean campaign...

Sultan Alaaddin organised a very big festival.

I went there with my grandfather, Hadji Nadim.

I was just a boy then.

-Is Konya beautiful? -Everywhere is beautiful if you like it.

-Excuse me. -Sure.

-You leave as fast as you came. -I need to be on my way.

You gave our sheikh the good news, inshallah.

For him there is no good or bad news.

Godspeed, Yunus Efendi.

Welcome.

You found and brought it here.

It never ran away after you left.

You have been to many of my father's talks.

Are you going away without helping him like a stranger?

My sheikh father does not tell anyone about his troubles.

His duty is to be a remedy for everyone's troubles.

Don't you know that?

I did all I could.

What more can I do?

Just coming here and informing is all you can do, eh?

What else can I do?

You are an educated person who knows about...

how affairs of state are dealt with.

Even if my sheikh father knew how, he wouldn't go there.

Aktar Husnu's brother isn't properly educated.

-There are others too, sir. -No.

Have the men inspect stores one-by-one.

Identify everyone who practices without education.

What are we here for!?

-Peace be upon you. -And upon you.

-Welcome, Azmi Aga. -Thank you, my sheikh.

No need!

You must thank our sheikh. If he didn't vouch for you, your store would be closed.

It's very kind of him.

I make mistakes and he forgives me.

We do not want to deal with such matters again, Azmi Aga.

You are tasked with maintaining the peace and wellbeing...

of the people living here, yet you...

May God grant you whatever you wish, my sheikh.

Not me.

Go and kiss the sheikh's hand.

You made up a vicious slander on his reputation...

but he vouched for you.

Go and kiss his hand and ask for forgiveness.

Hasn't the news from Konya arrived yet, Hasan Aga?

Not yet, Qadi Effendi. But any moment the bird will land.

Yunus.

-Peace be upon you. -And upon you.

If you'll excuse me, Qadi Effendi.

Weren’t you on your way?

I thought you were on your way to Konya.

I came here to ask you one last time, Ilyas. Don't give the sheikh a hard time.

How many times do we have to debate this, Yunus?

You are mistaken.

How do you know I am mistaken? How can you be so sure?

Never in my wildest dreams did I think you'd defend...

those self-appointed sheikhs.

Whatever you've heard about him is slander.

Whoever said it is a slanderer.

How are you so certain without even knowing what he is accused of?

Everyone except Sheikh Tapduk Emre is a slanderer, is that so, Yunus?

Not at all, Ilyas! That's not what I'm saying.

What are you saying then, Yunus?

It's not only about Tapduk Emre.

How can those sheikhs lead people to the true way?

Are we out of scholars in this country?

That I do not believe, Yunus.

That I cannot understand at all.

We shared the same dreams back in Karatay.

Didn't we promise that we would get rid of those false sheikhs?

What happened, Yunus?

How come you defend those uneducated...

and ignorant people and their sheikhs?

Just coming here and informing is all you can do?

What else can I do?

You are an educated person who knows about...

how affairs of state are dealt with.

Even if my sheikh father knew how, he wouldn't go there.

Don't let my mother hear this. I'd be done if you spill it.

Like she won't ever hear!

No, she'd be devastated.

I was going to check on the dog.

It doesn't need anything.

I hope Yunus Efendi didn't annoy you with inappropriate words.

No. They weren't inappropriate.

Why would Yunus Efendi say such words?

He wouldn't but I saw him speaking to you silently, so I wondered.

No. He's going back to Konya.

So he came here to inform my sheikh father about his case.

What is this case about our sheikh?

Haven't you heard what happened?

No, I haven't. What could this case be?

What can I get you, sir?

You're supposed to drink something.

We are trying to make a living here.

-What can I get you? -Sherbet.

Maybe you should do something about it while you still have time.

You care about my life, son, thank you.

But does my life belong to me that I should care about it?

I do not give or take what is not mine.

But like everyone, I have a body too.

If someone wishes to take it then he should come and take it.

Let him unburden me of this carcass that I've been carrying.

-Welcome, my dear. -Thank you, father.

How is Tapduk Emre?

I have important news about him.

About Tapduk Emre Effendi?

Tell me then, don't leave me wondering.

-Qadi Ilyas Efendi? -What of him?

He is about to raid Tapduk Emre's lodge.

What are you saying, my child?

Do you hear yourself?

Who told you this? Who did you hear that from?

I spoke to Qadi Ilyas Efendi again.

He says no. He insists on the law and justice.

What will happen now?

I've spoken to him twice. He wouldn't listen to me...

nor would he care.

I wish mother wouldn't find out about this but she eventually will.