{1}{1}25.000 {2860}{2933}{Y:i}There are as many paths to God... {2938}{2999}{Y:i}as there are souls on Earth. {5016}{5063}Bab'Aziz! {5428}{5459}What a storm! {5565}{5620}I've lost my bag, I'll go and look for it. {5626}{5674}Don't bother, Ishtar, {5679}{5742}even the dunes have moved. {5747}{5816}Anyway, I have what I need. {5823}{5860}Let's go. {5883}{5940}I don't want to go there anymore. {5946}{5981}Come on. {5988}{6040}I want to go back. {6073}{6118}We'll go back. {6259}{6299}Let's go. {6851}{6926}Bab'Aziz, won't you go to the gathering after all? {7007}{7053}I will, my little angel. I will. {7395}{7445}Will you go all alone? {7572}{7626}I'll find my way. {7796}{7844}But you'll get lost! {7890}{7930}He who has faith... {7935}{8002}will never get lost, my little angel. {8055}{8152}He who is at peace won't lose his way. {8207}{8261}But where is this gathering? {8272}{8329}I don't know, my angel. {8379}{8436}Do the others know? {8441}{8506}No, they don't know either. {8565}{8608}How can you go to a gathering {8613}{8652}without knowing where it is? {8658}{8711}It suffices to walk, just walk. {8716}{8824}Those who are invited will find the way. {8841}{8902}I don't want to go there. {8954}{9012}I'll take you to the road. {9017}{9094}Then you can take the bus home. {9142}{9181}Are you afraid of the storm? {9186}{9260}No, it's because of Boudour. {9280}{9354}So you want to leave your grandfather {9359}{9402}for a turtle... {9413}{9465}What a granddaughter I have here! {9486}{9534}Are you hungry? {9555}{9644}When we stop for a break you'll get two dates. {9649}{9685}I want them now! {9830}{9899}Here's one... and here's the other one. {9920}{9952}Let's go. {10510}{10544}Someone's lying there! {10550}{10599}So much the better! I'll ask him {10606}{10646}to accompany you. {10748}{10768}Excuse me, sir... {10851}{10887}You think you can escape from me {10892}{10939}by hiding yourself in the desert? {10944}{11007}You won't get away like that! {11015}{11082}What have you done to my brother? {11147}{11183}I'm sorry. I'm sorry. {11209}{11280}I'm looking for a red-haired dervish. {11288}{11354}That one couldn't take you home! {11360}{11407}Stop! {11418}{11458}Stop! {11478}{11551}If I see you again I'll thrash you! {11654}{11690}Ishtar! Ishtar! Come back! {11695}{11726}Lt'll soon be nightfall. {11731}{11799}We have to collect wood for a fire. {12017}{12079}Break off! Break off! {12300}{12364}That's all I could find, Bab'Aziz. {12716}{12783}This is my granddaughter, Ishtar. {12843}{12939}Does she understand you, Bab'Aziz? {12951}{13041}She's known me for a long time... {13458}{13503}Bab'Aziz, I'm cold. {13525}{13590}Pass me the wood, I'll make a fire. {13683}{13729}Here you are, Bab'Aziz. {14090}{14199}When you talk, it's less cold. {14375}{14444}Do you want me to tell you a story? {14456}{14527}A gazelle story, Bab'Aziz. {14610}{14678}Once upon a time, long ago, {14703}{14770}many moons before our time, {14782}{14862}in a desert like this one... {16823}{16893}It's ready for you to try, my prince. {17035}{17124}It's still bitter. {21588}{21612}Oh Lord! {21629}{21696}Something terrible must have happened to our prince! {21851}{21890}Bab'Aziz, the bread is done. {21895}{21929}It'll burn. {22421}{22471}Wait! It's too hot. {22508}{22576}So, what happened to the prince? {22632}{22682}- Has anyone seen the prince?|- No. {22687}{22723}- And you?|- No. {22773}{22819}- Have you seen the prince?|- No. {23029}{23095}- Have any of you seen the prince?|- No. {23185}{23239}I'm sure he got lost. {23486}{23532}The prince is lost! {23554}{23603}The prince is lost! {25041}{25094}Ishtar, are you listening? {25156}{25214}I'm listening, Bab'Aziz. {25272}{25347}One day, a horseman arrived in the city... {25714}{25749}We found the prince, {25755}{25797}but he's not the same as he was. {25803}{25840}What happened? {25857}{25882}I don't know. {25902}{25937}But at least he's not injured? {25959}{25991}Seemingly not. {26001}{26065}Stop talking in riddles! {26073}{26119}Come and see for yourself. {27799}{27837}You'd think he's contemplating {27842}{27882}his image at the bottom of the water. {27888}{27945}Maybe it's not his image. {27952}{27989}Only those who are not in love {27994}{28042}see their own reflection. {28047}{28087}So what does he see? {28092}{28141}He's contemplating his soul. {28147}{28186}Don't wake him, {28192}{28268}it might take wing. {28320}{28361}Go back, all of you. {28367}{28410}Don't disturb him. {28422}{28496}I must stay here alone to watch over him. {28844}{28882}Ishtar... {29773}{29835}Stop! Wait for me! Wait for me! {30983}{31055}Bab'Aziz, I thought you'd left without me! {31079}{31113}Me too. I thought you'd left {31118}{31177}without me, my little angel. {31201}{31273}Didn't you hear the bus? It woke me up. {31297}{31345}I was praying. {31711}{31777}Ishtar, it seems we're not alone. {32261}{32315}Are you going to the gathering? {32321}{32360}Yes, we're going. {32383}{32436}I thought you wouldn't come with me? {32449}{32493}I will now, because I want to know {32498}{32557}how the story of the prince goes on. {32583}{32621}It will take a long time, {32626}{32692}but the road is long, my little angel. {32728}{32770}Where will the gathering take place? {32780}{32850}I don't know, even Grandfather doesn't know! {32855}{32903}Besides, no one needs to know. {32932}{32974}And how will you get there? {33000}{33073}It suffices to walk, just walk... {33100}{33149}But what if we get lost? {33175}{33233}He who has faith will never get lost. {33288}{33330}Everyone uses his most precious gift {33336}{33383}to find his way. {33390}{33451}For you, it's your voice. {33456}{33490}Sing, my son, {33496}{33555}and the way will be shown to you. {33711}{33786}{Y:i}O day, arise! The atoms are dancing... {34114}{34263}{Y:i}The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. {34355}{34490}{Y:i}I'll whisper in your ear where their dance is leading them. {34910}{34968}What is a dervish? {35038}{35102}Are they all as old as you are? {35112}{35173}No, there are dervishes of all ages, {35189}{35228}women and men. {35233}{35269}Even children? {35274}{35300}Yes. {35322}{35400}They gather every 30 years, {35408}{35488}and the party goes on for many days and nights. {35495}{35567}So keep your breath for walking, {35573}{35656}you'll need it, little angel. {35792}{35858}Bab'Aziz, he's still following us! {35864}{35924}I know, little angel. I know. {36195}{36265}Bab'Aziz, hurry up! It's them! We've arrived! {36292}{36333}They are dervishes, {36340}{36394}but we haven't arrived yet. {36741}{36799}Bab'Aziz, I've swallowed some sand. {37107}{37153}You bear the angel's mark. {37188}{37251}What is the angel's mark, Bab'Aziz? {37275}{37369}Babies in their mother's womb {37374}{37440}know all the secrets of the universe. {37460}{37507}Butjust before they're born {37515}{37616}an angel comes and puts his finger on their mouth {37623}{37672}so that they forget everything. {37700}{37759}As a souvenir of this lost knowledge, {37780}{37827}some of them, like you, {37833}{37919}have a mark on their chin. {37934}{37976}That's the angel's mark. {38164}{38238}But then, do we one day remember {38243}{38292}everything we knew? {38442}{38469}Who knows? Maybe. {41627}{41694}There are so many dervishes! Have we arrived this time? {41725}{41776}No, little angel. Not yet. {42218}{42274}I'll bring us something to eat. {42938}{42961}More! {43087}{43136}More! The old ones count double. {43176}{43242}If you're still hungry you can come back. {43654}{43681}Here you are, Bab'Aziz. {44351}{44396}Ishtar, why are you eating so quickly? {44420}{44494}So you can finish telling me the prince story. {44621}{44664}The prince was still despondent. {44671}{44713}He just gazed into the water. {44745}{44841}Everyone had left, even the quartermaster. {44858}{45005}Only the old dervish remained, watching over him {45016}{45081}for many days and nights. {46109}{46188}Help! Help! A man jumped into the well! {46293}{46326}I'll go and see! {46332}{46377}Wait, Ishtar! {46407}{46444}May God bless us! {46453}{46489}Stand clear! Stand clear! {46496}{46554}He's alive! Move out of the way! {46710}{46766}What's your name, my son? {46921}{46953}Osman. {46967}{47029}Why did you jump into the well? {47047}{47110}I seek my palace. It lies in the bottom of a well. {47115}{47147}I want my palace. {47192}{47236}The poor devil. He's raving mad! {47317}{47365}Come on, do you want to die? {47484}{47519}Tell me your tale, my son. {47524}{47591}It will ease your heart. {47673}{47750}The first time I fell into a well, {47756}{47803}I found myself in a palace. But where is my palace now? {48870}{48949}This time I'll go. {48960}{49023}I'll leave you to your desert and your dust. {49034}{49092}My father, I'm leaving you. {49423}{49467}After my father died I became a sand-carrier, {49474}{49524}as he had been. {49530}{49590}My best customer was the scribe. {49596}{49666}At his place, I met his student Hussein, {49672}{49717}my only friend. {49800}{49843}I wanted to leave the country, {49849}{49897}and I wanted him to come with me. {49903}{49935}But he didn't want to leave. {49940}{49990}Something kept him. {50001}{50033}A secret... {50154}{50225}Master, I brought you some sand. {50687}{50777}This sand is as soft as silk. {50783}{50836}I have brought it from far away for you, {50842}{50888}but this is the last time. {50917}{50949}I'm going to leave. {51036}{51077}Why, Osman? {51135}{51177}It was your forefathers' profession. {51223}{51290}Precisely. I don't want to pass it on to anyone. {51784}{51813}Take this letter. {51818}{51858}You know who it's for. {51863}{51924}Don't forget. I'm relying on you. {52333}{52374}That's great! {52477}{52515}Will you help me? {52614}{52662}So you're leaving? - Y...
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