All language subtitles for Farouk Omar S01E26

Farouk Omar
(Omar Ibn Al-Khattab)

Episode 26.

You are very tired, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen!

Wouldn't you rather go back
and have some sleep?

No. I will just rest here a little.

Daughter, get up
and add some water to the milk.

In the morning you need
to go out and sell it.

God forbids, mother.

Ameer Al-Mu'mineen sent a crier making
clear that milk must not be mixed with water.

You cannot be seen here
by Umar or his crier.

Get up and do as I told you.

I would not obey him in public
and disobey him in private.

A small income with obedience to God
is better than plenty with a sin.

If Umar cannot see us,
God who never sleeps sees us.

Know the place, Aslam.

Tomorrow, find out who said what to who,
and whether they are married or not.

- Ameer Al-Mu'mineen!
- May we come in?

What is the matter, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen?
I hope it is something good.

Bring in your daughter please.

I went out on night watch last night,
then I felt tired.

I reclined against your wall

and God made me hear your conversation
concerning that milk you have.

I repent, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

God forgives sins and accepts repentance.

Indeed, but He is also stern in punishment.

So fear God and never do it again.

I will not. Certainly not.

As for you, how good you are.

I enquired about you and learnt that
the young woman is unmarried.

- Would you like to marry...
- Zainab. She is Zainab.

This is my son, Asim,
and he is unmarried.

I spoke to him about you
and encouraged him. He is willing.

Would you like to look at him
and let him look at you?

If you both like what you see,
we will marry you.

She must look at him first.

Do you accept him as husband?

Why wouldn't she accept
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen's son?

You are the guardian of both of them.
Silence is the sign of acceptance.

Do not be taken in by his being
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen's son.

He has no money of his own.

If he treats you badly,
I will give him double punishment.

May God unite you two well
and give you good children.

You are not so shy and silnt in Istakhr
when I tried a bit of flirtation.

Had I known that you were
the Emperor, the king of kings.

I myself did not not know.
My mother had told me that

I am the grandson of the great emperor,
Khosrau Parvez,

and that she hid me so that my uncle
Shirweih could not lay his hands on me

and kill me as he killed his father, brothers

and all male descendents of his father.

She kept telling me not to let anyone
know this truth.

She told me that I must remain
an ordinary person.

Then you know what happened.

Now we are here in the white palace
which belonged to my forefathers.

How do you feel, your majesty, now
that you have regained your heritage?

I don't know.

I mean... sometimes I feel a stranger.

I have been used to ordinary life.
I look around me

and see princes, commanders, nobility
and servants prostrating themselves to me.

I have the treasures of my forefathers.

I only have to give a signal
for someone to be killed,

or to fall from luxury to misery,
or to rise from misery to luxury.

This makes me feel that
I am bigger than life, greater than death,

and that a light of the Great Spirit
is now inside me.

It is what brought me to the throne
of my forefathers

and to the White Palace.
Why wouldn't all this please me?

I do know now why princes have fought
each other for the throne, killing one another.

Enter please.

Peace be to you, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.
- And to you two be peace.

Sit down, both of you.

My Lord, help me against them both.

Each one of them wants me
to slip in his favor.

Fear God concerning your dispute.

We only judge in accordance with
what appears to us to be right.

We have no knowledge
of what is in people's hearts.

Remember what the Prophet said:
"You come to me with your disputes.

Some of you may have a better argument,
and I may judge for him according to what I hear.

If I give a person something
that rightfully belongs to his brother,

he should not take it.
I am only giving him a brand of fire."

Present your complaint, Dahhak,
before your opponent.

I have at Al-Urayyid a spring of water.

In between the spring and my farm

lies a plot of land belonging
to Muhammad Ibn Maslamah.

If I want to run the water to my land,
it must go through Muhammad's land,

but he denied me that.

I said to him, "It is a benefit for you:
You can have your drinking water

and irrigate your land if you wish.
It will not be of any disadvantage to you."

But he still refuses.

Why do you deny your brother
something that benefits him

when it is of benefit to you too?
You can use it without any disadvantage.

It is my land, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen,

I am free to do whatever I like with it,
permitting anything or refusing it.

I fear that if I let this go that he
and his family take advantage of that,

enter it and spoil my things there.
It is as if I leave it to any passerby.

That it is your property is acknowledged.

However, your refusal harms him.

It is as if you are preventing him
to benefit by his land.

This does not brings you any benefit,

while letting the water through
will benefit both of you,

without giving you any disadvantage.
Do you give priority to harm over benefit?

We are only in charge
of what God has given us.

We should use it for benefit
to ourselves and others.

The purpose is to build the earth.

You may stipulate that he must not harm
your land. If he does, I will punish him.

Won't you let me have a choice in my
own land, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen?

There is no choice in this matter.

He shall have his water running
despite your objections. This is final.

- Peace be to you.
- And to you be peace.

Enter!

- Is is a complaint?
- Yes, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

- Against Hatib Ibn Abi Balta'ah?
- Against these servants of his.

They work for me, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

- What have they done?
- They stole my she-camel.

- Did you?
- We did, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

Then we will implement the punishment
for theft against you.

Tell me first, what have you done
with his she-camel?

We slaughtered it,
ate of it and fed other people.

Why did you do that?

Speak out. Do not worry about him.

Because of hunger, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.
It has bitten hard at us.

Don't you give your servants
enough to eat, Hatib?

All power operates by God's will.
Where has compassion gone?

You employ them and leave them hungry?

Even if any of them eats what God
has forbidden, he will incur no sin,

as God says: "He who is driven by
necessity, not intending to transgress

nor exceeding his need, incurs no sin.
God is Much-Forgiving, Merciful."
(Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 173)

I am sparing them the mandatory
punishment because of suspected necessity.

In case of doubt, it is better
to suspend mandatory punishments

than to implement them.
All three of you leave now.

What about my she-camel,
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen?

By God, as I have spared
them the punishment,

I shall fine you heavily. You are
the one who caused this offence.

How much were you offered
for your she-camel?

- Four hundred dirhams.
- Go and give him eight hundred.

- Am I to give him double its price?
- Yes, you will.

I shall be enquiring about your servants.
If I hear that you have kept them hungry,

causing them to incur a mandatory
punishment, you will suffer that punishment.

The case is settled.

- Peace be to Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.
- And to you be peace with God's mercy.

- I am seeking your advice.
- Speak!

I have a daughter. In pre-Islamic days
I took her out aiming to bury her alive.

When I put her under the dust,
I was overwhelmed with compassion

and I took her out.
Then we embraced Islam.

When she was a young woman,
she incurred a grave sin.

You mean adultery?

She took a blade to commit suicide.

We saved her after she had cut
some of her veins.

I had treated her
until she regained her health.

Subsequently she truly repented
and she is of good character.

She is thus one of those whose bad
actions God changes into good ones.

Now someone wants to marry her.
Should I inform him of what happened?

Would you expose something
God wants to remain hidden?

If you tell anyone of what she did,

I will make of you an example
to all people in all provinces.

Give her in marriage
as a chaste Muslim woman.

You have removed my burden,
Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

May God remove all worry from you
in this life and in the hereafter.

Do not do that.
It will be a negative point for you,

and an act of pride on my part,
which God dislikes.

I am only one of the Muslim community,

but my test is harder than yours
because of my position.

Go to your business, may God bless you.

My Lord, I have tried my best
to arrive at the right rulings

on questions to which nothing
in the Qur'an or the Sunnah

of the Prophet appeared applicable.

My aim is to set things to right, as far
as far as I can.

This is my understanding of Your Faith.
If I am right,

It is because of Your guidance,

and if I am wrong, it is because
of my own faulty understanding.

In You I place my trust, and to You I turn.

Abu Al-Hasan, I have been having
too many cases of complaints to look into.

I would love that you will
share these with me,

so that you judge in disputes as I do.

You are the depository of knowledge
of Islam and a guide to the Truth.

Suppose that I give a ruling
on a certain case,

and you hear of my ruling
but disagree with it. What will you do?

Where there is a clear statement
in God's Book or the Prophet's sunnah,

we can have no dispute.

You know them better than anyone else.

On cases left to personal discretion,
we are equal.

Everyone judges as he sees right.

I will not abrogate a ruling given by Abu
Al-Hassan on the basis of his discretion,

even though I may have a different view.
We pray for God's guidance.

Then I will do, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

May God always keep me
where Abu Al-Hasan is.

We are witnessing events

with no parallel that happened
during the Prophet's lifetime.

We do not find in God's Book
rulings applicable to them.

We judge them as we see fit,

according to our understanding
of the objectives of our religion

and the interests of the people.

Personal judgement
by the Prophet was right,

because God showed him,
but revelation has ceased.

When we judge on the basis
of personal discretion,

no one may say that his own judgement
is God's judgement.

Anyone who says so claims to be
privy to God's own knowledge

and purposes while others are not.

If you disagree with him you will be as
if you disagree with God.

Soon enough,
he will brand you as disbeliever.

He may even consider
that you deserve to be killed.

That is certainly a disastrous
state of affairs.

Discretion is available to all.

People may have different views
on the same question.

Besides, one may have
a certain view today,

but then discovers that a different view
is better, so he abandons his first one.

I ruled on a particular question
according to my discretion,

and then I heard someone saying:
'This is God's ruling and Umar's ruling'.

I was about to punish him severely.
It was a bad utterance.

That was Umar's judgement. If it
is right, then that is by God's grace,

and if it is wrong,
then it is Umar's mistake.

O people! O people!
Follow the Sunnah!

Follow the course which is defined
by God and His Messenger.

What is determined on the basis of personal
Discretion must not be considered...

in the same status.

- Peace be to you with God's mercy.
- And to you be peace with God's mercy.

You must be meeting for something
special. Let us hope it is good.

I received news that the Bishop
of the city had a son

and he is hosting a celebration tonight,
giving people much to eat and drink.

And are we to celebrate with him?

Yes, in our own way.

I also learnt that he will send much food
and drink to the city guards.

When these drink, they are excessive
and they get drunk or nearly so.

This gives us an opportunity
we must not miss.

- You mean...
- Yes, it seems it is time.

Deep into the night,
they will be much less alert,

due to their drunkenness and sleepiness.
We can climb the wall then.

At the Eastern Gate?
But it is the most difficult.

Yes, but it is the least guarded,
as our scouts have confirmed.

They rely on the strength of the gate
and the thickness of the wall next to it.

The Muslims! The Muslims!

They stormed through the Eastern Gate.

Move away!

You have not protected the city,
and now you want to ruin us all.

A division of the Muslim Army has
entered through the Eastern Gate.

Unless we rush to their commander now
and sue for peace, we will all be ruined.

- The Muslims have conquered the city!
- They entered through the Eastern Gate!

Peace! Peace!

Peace, Sir!

We have opened the gates
for you willingly,

on the basis of the conditions
of security you have promised us.

We did this before your men who entered
through the Eastern Gate reached us.

Would you like to sit there, Sir?

The Covenant of Peace, Sir!

Yes, we entered from our side by force,

but I faced little resistance
by the Bizantine guards.

Soon after that, a group of the residents
came to me peacefully.

They had expelled the Byzantine force
close to them,

and prevented them from fighting us.

In doing so, they exposed themselves
to retaliation by the Byzantines.

Prior to that, they helped us.

I gave them a pledge of safety
and security for themselves,

their property, churches
and walls of the city,

a pledge by God and according to
the practice of God's messenger,

his successors and the believers. No one
approaches them with anything but good.

They have to pay the tribute, the jizyah,
and we will protect them against any enemy.

A commitment by any Muslim
is binding on the Muslim community.

Khalid is a leader.
We honour his pledge.

Tell me, people, am I dreaming?

Is this Damascus where we used
to come and do our trade?

We might hear some Byzantines
referring to us in their coversation.

We learnt from those of us who spoke their
language that they have contempt for us.

They described us as uncouth Bedouins.

They allow us into their city
only because they profit by our trade.

Here we are now: we are its kings.

Our Caliph is not a king, Abu Sufyan,
so that we become kings with him.

Call us what you will. The people
here are now under our rule.

This is what was promised by God
and His Messenger.

True is their promise.

Would that Abu Sufyan came early to Islam.

He would have been a leader under
Islam as he was a leader before it.

But here is my son, Yazeed.

He achieved under Islam what I could
not achieve in Muslim leadership.

I hope that my son, Mu'awiyah,
will attain what his father could not.

Will you settle here, Abu Sufyan?

In Damascus?

I am too old for that, Abu Yazeed.
I yearn for Makkah and Madinah.

What about you?

Maybe I will stay for a while.

Jihad in Syria is not over yet.
Damascus is the crown jewel,

but we shall not rest, nor let the enemy rest,
until we take Jerusalem, God willing.

Most warm welcome to you, Abu Yazeed.

You look as one in his prime,
despite your long journey.

Is this the effect of the air of Damascus?

Couldn't this great victory
have come ten years earlier?

All praise be to God, as I now see you
a fighter for God's cause.

He has shown you
how His promise comes true.

And I still have my front teeth
which Umar wanted to pull out,

so that I could not speak.

God's Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him),

was without equal in magnanimity (generosity),
wisdom and knowledge.

You know that we hardly received
the happy news of the fall of Damascus

when I received a letter
from Al-Muthanna in Iraq

telling me that the Persians have appointed
a descendant of Khosrau as their king.

They compete in serving him.

Thus, the rivalry between them is over.

They have gathered their armies,
and sent advance forces to the rural areas,

coercing people to abandon their
agreements with our brothers (brethren).

Al-Muthanna and his army cannot
stand up to such a great force.

They want it a decisive battle,
which we also want.

I am instructing Abu Ubaidah to dispatch
Al-Qa'qa and Khalid's units to Iraq.

I have also written to Al-Muthanna,

instructing him to take his forces out
of the urban Persian areas

and move to the open places,

dividing his forces in the locations
close to the Persians.

They must recruit everyone in the Tribes
of Rabeeah and Mudar

and their allies,

either willingly or unwillingly.

They must get the Arabs to mobilize
their all as the Persians are doing.

Whatever calamity befalls the Arabs
will apply to all of them.

Any bounty and blessing God grants
them will similarly apply to all.

Therefore, they must rise in total
when their enemy is all out against them.

Yes. Yes.

I will be going out to meet them
when they have gathered.

Abu Al-Hassan will deputize
for me here in Madinah.

That you march at the head of the army
to Iraq is not a well advised plan.

Should you be killed or defeated
in such a decisive battle,

we fear that Muslims will not be able
to hold their own after that.

You better stay in Madinah, directing
armies and managing the state.

If victory is achieved,
this is what we all hope for.

Otherwise, you can send other troops
to engage the enemy

- until Allah grants us victory.
- Yes. Yes.

If this is is the accepted view, who shall
we appoint as army commander?

The lion himself.

Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas.

I do not want to lose all this!

I heard a wise man saying: 'A person
who owns much, fears for much.

The one who experiences
the happiness of kingship

will be the most distressed for losing it. '

The sense of loss is proportionate
to what is lost.

Today, I am the most worried,
that I may lose this one.

Are you referring to the Muslim army
which has encamped at Al-Qadisiyyah?

Rustom has not yet marched
with the army. Why the delay?

Every time I call him he says:

"Perhaps the state will be more stable
with me if I do not take part in the war,

and that patience is better than haste."

It is better to engage only in skirmishes
until their omen becomes a a bad one.

He advised that Jalinous could march
at the head of an army to meet them.

You should not call Rustom
or consult him.

You command him and he obeys.

I learnt that he consults the stars
and believes in them.

Let him and his stars perish
if the Muslims were to take Persia.

The stars write what we do.
It is not that we do what the stars write.

Those who read the stars only read
what is in their own minds.

Show them that YOU,
not his stars, hold command.

A month! A whole month since the Arabs
encamped at Al-Qadisiyyah.

They have rested and recuperated.
They ate of the good food of the country,

regained their strength, went all over Iraq
and brought it back under their control.

Every time I ordered you
to march to them...

at the head of an army the like
of which the Arabs have never seen,

you have excuses and delayed matters.
I don't know what goes on in your mind.

You may think: "He is a lad
who was one of the masses

and whose only hope was to survive.
We brought him here...

and placed him on his ancestors throne.
He does not know what kingship means."

No, I never sought this,
and I was content with what I had.

However, now that I am on the throne
of my ancestors,

I have the command and I will never
abandon my throne to my last breath.

We are all your servants, your majesty!

If you fear to face the Arabs, then resign

and find for yourself some place far away
in Persia where you may tend sheep.

Farouk Omar