Noura learns that Hassan is alive. Layl smuggles in some women to kill Hasiba. Layl visits Hassan with Shokr. Azmy kidnaps Noura and tells Zeinab to inform Hassan he has her. Azmy tells Sayed to rally his men to fight Hassan off.
Hassan takes the gold from Sayed's men and uses it to hire men to fight for him. Layl agrees to wed Sayed if he kills Hasiba. Azmy learns that Hassan is still alive.
Layl gets forcibly aborted. Azmy poisons Farag. Hassan saves Abu Dayf from some criminals.
As Hassan wakes up, he asks Al-A'war to help him and bring him Fadl. Gamila wants to buy Hassan's shop but Azmy berates her for her idea. Mabrouk confronts Shokr about the gold. Hassan's mother passes away.
Zeinab and Noura treat Layl badly. Azmy and Sayed ally against Hassan. Hassan exposes the fake Mabrouk and kicks him out of El-Gamaleya. Sayed's son, Abdu, arrives to see Hassan.
Azmy suggests for Fadl to stop being a Fetewa in exchange for supporting him as the Fetewa's top aide. Hassan tells Layl that he loves her and will not give up on her. As Azmy loses his duel with Farag, Hassan challenges Farag and wins the title of the Fetewa.
As Ja'far tries to invade El-Gamaleya, Azmy prepares to duel Farag for the title of Fetewa. Azmy tells Layl to forget about marrying Hassan, who caused their father's death.
Sayed refuses to wed his son to Noura. He also puts his plan to kill Hassan into effect and sends masked men after him. Farag kills Saber.
Azmy learns that Gamila loves Hassan. Sayed tells his son-in-law about how he and Saber got rid of Ahmed Al-Jebaly. Hassan takes his daughter Noura to introduce her to Layl. As masked men break into Hassan's house to search for gold, they beat his mother.
Azmy and his men kill Hanouka after he dresses as the masked man. The furious Hassan quarrels with Saber and Azmy over Hanouka's murder.
Layl refuses to go back together with Sayed. Azmy orders his men to double the exaction they are imposing on people. Azmy's men assault Hanouka to force him to pay the exaction.
Sayed plots with his son-in-law to invade El-Gamaleya to become its Fetewa. As Hassan and Azmy meet, Hassan refuses to join Azmy as a Fetewa again.
Hassan and Layl fall for each other. Mos'ad advises Hassan to throw the gold in the Nile. Saber is supported by the people of El-Gamaleya.
Saber allows Layl to go out. Layl tells Hassan that she knows he is the masked man and asks to meet him the next day. Saber and Layl try to bring Shouq over to determine if the girls' mother is alive.
Hassan steals meat from Sayed's men and distributes it on the poor. Layl meets Hassan and falls for him. Azmy sets another meeting with Hassan.
Azmy perpetuates a rumor that the masked man killed Beshr. Hassan threatens Sayed Al-Labban at Beshr's funeral and refuses to join Azmy as a Fetewa.