Khartoum Page #4
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to remember all things...
without confusion.
For if you had
left me this Bible...
then it would be different.
I could not have read it,
but even so...
- Khaleel.
- I'm here, master.
Khaleel, there's something
I want you to do for me.
And I shall do it, master.
sometime, master...
I do not understand this man.
For He announced, and He
for once He was very clear...
almost like
the great Lord Mohammed...
bless him and peace be upon him.
But I do not understand
this Jesus Christ.
For as I remember, you told me,
He announced most clearly...
as I have said...
Khaleel, there's something
I want you to do.
You have only to speak master.
Now, He say when a man
is struck upon one cheek...
he must turn the other.
Do you? No.
You don't.
I must inform you, Khaleel,
as delicately as possible...
that I am not Jesus Christ.
Wait! Will you first
find out for me...
where the Mahdi's camp
is at present?
Khaleel.
Peace be with you.
Peace be with you.
Send a messenger
to Mohammed Ahmed...
who is called the Mahdi...
and tell him
that Gordon Pasha...
Governor General of the Sudan,
has entered his camp.
It is a lie before God!
He is not Gordon Pasha!
Abdullah! Gordon Pasha is here!
How does he appear?
The skin is pink.
The beard is only here.
It is gray.
Khartoum.
Holy person, we saw him
yesterday in Khartoum.
It is Gordon Pasha.
How many are his soldiers?
He is alone
with one black slave.
I fear it. He makes magic.
We saw it yesterday
in the streets.
Kill him.
You're all so innocent.
Who makes the magic
that brings him...
to my camp alone
with one black slave?
He...
or I?
Bring the great one to me.
Is it because you are
an infidel, Gordon Pasha...
that I feel myself
in the presence of evil?
for you are not an infidel...
and I smell evil.
I have 30,000 soldiers
in my camp.
Is it because
you are so brave...
or so foolish,
that you come here alone...
unarmed, with only
a black slave to hold your robe?
Khaleel is not a slave.
He is a free man.
He comes with me out of love.
And he does not hold my robe,
but a gift for you.
Years ago, Mohammed Ahmed...
I led the armies
of the Emperor of China...
at a time of great trial.
And when his enemies
were crushed and confounded...
and his throne was again secure,
he made me this gift.
I have brought it
from London for you.
It is most exquisite.
When the Emperor of China
ceases to be a non-believer...
and accepts me,
the Expected One...
as the true Mahdi...
then I shall be happy
to receive such a gift.
Khaleel?
You will wait just outside.
Abria. Real abria.
I've had none in five years.
Your meeting with Zobeir Pasha
was less than happy, I believe.
Your intelligence service...
has an excellence
beyond my expectations.
How much you must regret
having killed his son.
I executed his son.
I have no regrets.
It was a necessary
object lesson...
in my campaign
against the slave trade.
And it was successful.
But since
you have come back now...
with instructions
to evacuate Khartoum...
most happily,
the peace of the Sudan...
What a pleasure it is
to negotiate with a man...
who knows even my instructions.
on preliminaries.
What are your instructions
concerning Khartoum?
I have been instructed
by the Prophet...
blessings and peace
be upon him...
to worship
in the Khartoum mosque.
Sudanese who will oppose you.
I welcome in peace
all those who worship with me.
And the others?
Mohammed Ahmed,
may I suggest...
that when first
I came to the Sudan...
its body was sick, stricken
with hunger and abused by war.
I cured it... and this land...
I'm not a loving man,
Mohammed Ahmed...
but this land became the only
thing that I've ever loved.
I cannot, under my God...
do you understand?
to the sickness...
and the misery
I make no war on you.
Make no war on your own people.
I'll take the Egyptians
back to Egypt.
I'll leave the Sudan
to the Sudanese...
and be happy and contented,
but if I'm to leave Khartoum...
to sickness and misery,
to death...
The Egyptians
must remain in Khartoum.
I am a poor man of the desert.
But I am the Mahdi,
the Expected One.
On my cheek is the mole.
Between my teeth...
the space.
And so that all men may know
that I am the true Mahdi...
the Prophet Mohammed, blessings
and peace be upon him...
makes miracles.
Do you understand?
I begin to.
Gordon Pasha, do you believe
that the Prophet...
blessings be upon him,
has instructed me...
to pray only in
the mosque at Khartoum?
No. I am to pray
in the mosque at Cairo...
and at Mecca, and at Baghdad...
and in the mosque
at Constantinople.
He has commanded me to make
holy war until all of Islam...
acknowledges the purity
of his biddings...
and all the world
trembles before me.
But all Islam
must know who I am.
And believe.
Gordon Pasha,
for tasks of such greatness...
great deeds are needed.
Egypt opposes me...
and so the Egyptians
must remain in Khartoum.
For I shall take it in blood...
and the streets
will run in blood...
and the Nile will taste
of blood for a hundred miles...
and every Egyptian will die...
every child, woman, man.
Sudanese, too, who opposes
the will of my Lord Mohammed...
will die.
This is how it must be
in Khartoum.
Great and terrible thing.
Or I shall not pray
in the mosques of Cairo...
and Mecca,
and Constantinople...
nor will the world
I had thought in my lifetime
that I had witnessed all things.
And you have.
You have described to me
how it was an object lesson...
when you slaughtered
the sons of the slavers...
and brought peace to the Sudan.
You have no regrets.
What is the difference,
Gordon Pasha?
or a holy miracle?
If Khartoum is sacrificed...
then all Islam
will tremble and bow...
and in peace I shall proceed...
to all the mosques
where I must pray...
and the lives of millions
will be spared.
Whisper to me, Gordon Pasha...
if they are different.
This is how it will be.
This is how it will be.
Stewart Pasha.
He's back, sir.
Excellency,
he has had no sleep.
General!
You have... been to the Mahdi.
He plans to lay siege
to Khartoum...
take it by force.
To slaughter all the Egyptians
and those Sudanese
who haven't accepted him.
But there are 35,000 people
in Khartoum.
Those are his purposes,
and I believe him.
The man is sincere.
He believes utterly
in the divine necessity...
for what he's doing.
How could I have been
such a stumbling fool?
I'm a man
who will question anything...
except my own
religious convictions.
The Mahdi's no different.
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