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Farouk Omar
(Omar Ibn Al-Khattab)

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Episode 26.

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

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

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No. I will just rest here a little.

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

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

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God forbids, mother.

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

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You cannot be seen here
by Umar or his crier.

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Get up and do as I told you.

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

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

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

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Know the place, Aslam.

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

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

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

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Bring in your daughter please.

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

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I reclined against your wall

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

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I repent, Ameer Al-Mu'mineen.

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God forgives sins and accepts repentance.

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Indeed, but He is also stern in punishment.

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So fear God and never do it again.

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I will not. Certainly not.

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As for you, how good you are.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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She must look at him first.

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Do you accept him as husband?

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

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

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

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He has no money of his own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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and kill me as he killed his father, brothers

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and all male descendents of his father.

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

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She told me that I must remain
an ordinary person.

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Then you know what happened.

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

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

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I don't know.

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I mean... sometimes I feel a stranger.

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

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

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I have the treasures of my forefathers.

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

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

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

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

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It is what brought me to the throne
of my forefathers

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

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

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Enter please.

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

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Sit down, both of you.

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My Lord, help me against them both.

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

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Fear God concerning your dispute.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Present your complaint, Dahhak,
before your opponent.

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I have at Al-Urayyid a spring of water.

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In between the spring and my farm

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lies a plot of land belonging
to Muhammad Ibn Maslamah.

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

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but he denied me that.

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

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

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But he still refuses.

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Why do you deny your brother
something that benefits him

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

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

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

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

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

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That it is your property is acknowledged.

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However, your refusal harms him.

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

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This does not brings you any benefit,

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while letting the water through
will benefit both of you,

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

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

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We should use it for benefit
to ourselves and others.

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The purpose is to build the earth.

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

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

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There is no choice in this matter.

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

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

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Enter!

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

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

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

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

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

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Then we will implement the punishment
for theft against you.

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

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

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Why did you do that?

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Speak out. Do not worry about him.

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

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

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

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You employ them and leave them hungry?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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By God, as I have spared
them the punishment,

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

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How much were you offered
for your she-camel?

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

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

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

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

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The case is settled.

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

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- I am seeking your advice.
- Speak!

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

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

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and I took her out.
Then we embraced Islam.

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

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You mean adultery?

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She took a blade to commit suicide.

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

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I had treated her
until she regained her health.

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Subsequently she truly repented
and she is of good character.

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

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

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Would you expose something
God wants to remain hidden?

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If you tell anyone of what she did,

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

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Give her in marriage
as a chaste Muslim woman.

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

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

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

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

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I am only one of the Muslim community,

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

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Go to your business, may God bless you.

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

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

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of the Prophet appeared applicable.

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

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

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It is because of Your guidance,

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

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

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

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I would love that you will
share these with me,

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so that you judge in disputes as I do.

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

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Suppose that I give a ruling
on a certain case,

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

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

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we can have no dispute.

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You know them better than anyone else.

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On cases left to personal discretion,
we are equal.

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Everyone judges as he sees right.

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

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

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

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

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We are witnessing events

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

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

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We judge them as we see fit,

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according to our understanding
of the objectives of our religion

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and the interests of the people.

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Personal judgement
by the Prophet was right,

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because God showed him,
but revelation has ceased.

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When we judge on the basis
of personal discretion,

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

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

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and purposes while others are not.

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

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Soon enough,
he will brand you as disbeliever.

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He may even consider
that you deserve to be killed.

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That is certainly a disastrous
state of affairs.

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Discretion is available to all.

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People may have different views
on the same question.

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Besides, one may have
a certain view today,

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

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I ruled on a particular question
according to my discretion,

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

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

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

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

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O people! O people!
Follow the Sunnah!

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

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

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in the same status.

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

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

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

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

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And are we to celebrate with him?

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Yes, in our own way.

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

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

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This gives us an opportunity
we must not miss.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Muslims! The Muslims!

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They stormed through the Eastern Gate.

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Move away!

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

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

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

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

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Peace! Peace!

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Peace, Sir!

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We have opened the gates
for you willingly,

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

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

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Would you like to sit there, Sir?

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The Covenant of Peace, Sir!

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Yes, we entered from our side by force,

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but I faced little resistance
by the Bizantine guards.

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

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They had expelled the Byzantine force
close to them,

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and prevented them from fighting us.

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

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Prior to that, they helped us.

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

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their property, churches
and walls of the city,

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

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

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

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

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Khalid is a leader.
We honour his pledge.

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Tell me, people, am I dreaming?

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

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

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

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They described us as uncouth Bedouins.

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

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Here we are now: we are its kings.

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

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

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This is what was promised by God
and His Messenger.

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True is their promise.

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Would that Abu Sufyan came early to Islam.

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

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But here is my son, Yazeed.

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

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

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Will you settle here, Abu Sufyan?

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In Damascus?

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

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What about you?

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Maybe I will stay for a while.

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

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

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Most warm welcome to you, Abu Yazeed.

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

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Is this the effect of the air of Damascus?

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

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

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He has shown you
how His promise comes true.

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

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so that I could not speak.

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God's Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him),

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

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

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when I received a letter
from Al-Muthanna in Iraq

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

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They compete in serving him.

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Thus, the rivalry between them is over.

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

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

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

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

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

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I have also written to Al-Muthanna,

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

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and move to the open places,

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dividing his forces in the locations
close to the Persians.

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They must recruit everyone in the Tribes
of Rabeeah and Mudar

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and their allies,

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either willingly or unwillingly.

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

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

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

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

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Yes. Yes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Otherwise, you can send other troops
to engage the enemy

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

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00:39:18,294 --> 00:39:23,255
If this is is the accepted view, who shall
we appoint as army commander?

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The lion himself.

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Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas.

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I do not want to lose all this!

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

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The one who experiences
the happiness of kingship

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will be the most distressed for losing it. '

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The sense of loss is proportionate
to what is lost.

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

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

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00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,975
Rustom has not yet marched
with the army. Why the delay?

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00:40:24,143 --> 00:40:26,254
Every time I call him he says:

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

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and that patience is better than haste."

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00:40:32,282 --> 00:40:36,875
It is better to engage only in skirmishes
until their omen becomes a a bad one.

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00:40:37,190 --> 00:40:40,877
He advised that Jalinous could march
at the head of an army to meet them.

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00:40:41,142 --> 00:40:43,426
You should not call Rustom
or consult him.

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You command him and he obeys.

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00:40:45,844 --> 00:40:48,906
I learnt that he consults the stars
and believes in them.

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00:40:49,282 --> 00:40:52,409
Let him and his stars perish
if the Muslims were to take Persia.

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00:40:56,282 --> 00:40:59,676
The stars write what we do.
It is not that we do what the stars write.

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00:41:00,081 --> 00:41:03,765
Those who read the stars only read
what is in their own minds.

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

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

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

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

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00:41:24,874 --> 00:41:27,160
Every time I ordered you
to march to them...

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00:41:27,404 --> 00:41:29,434
at the head of an army the like
of which the Arabs have never seen,

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

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

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

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00:41:40,049 --> 00:41:43,921
and placed him on his ancestors throne.
He does not know what kingship means."

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

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00:41:49,936 --> 00:41:54,859
However, now that I am on the throne
of my ancestors,

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

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00:42:05,246 --> 00:42:07,731
We are all your servants, your majesty!

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00:42:10,264 --> 00:42:14,093
If you fear to face the Arabs, then resign

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

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Farouk Omar