taqwa be one of those islamic jargon which can only be loosely translate into english . it be the islamic concept of god consciousness . someone have taqwa have the constant awareness of god omnipresence in his life and he be suppose to be in total submission to god . the movie tell the story of muharrem and a simple mind and unobtrusive middle age man who live alone . while he run the errand in the place he work and he spend most of his time in the local dargah ( a sufi shrine build over the grave of a revered religious figure ) by engage himself with total abstinence and dhikr ( a form of devotion and in which the worshiper be absorb in the rhythmic repetition of the name of god or his attribute ) muharrem uneventful life start to take a bit different course when he be give to duty ( by the leader dervish of the religious brotherhood ) to take care of the financial matter like collect the monthly rent for the religious order . muharrem be oblige in the very matter he refrain from . he find himself oblige to engage in worldly matter . the more he get himself into this the more he vacillate because he notice that the religious order rent a shop to the men who take alcohol and in another example he oscillate to take the rent from a family who have barely any money . the more he get himself in money matter the more dream he have about sex alcohol and money . he wet dream of sleep with the same woman every time . a day when he really feel suffocate he take to the street and he see the same woman in a jewelery store . when he follow her and he notice that she be the very daughter of the dargah leader . at the end of the movie we see him pretty numb in his bed . taqwa shed a light on the inner working of political islam . religious brotherhood surely provide unity among muslim but most of these brotherhood seek after only their interest . this be more like a business industry . they own shop and flat and private school and course . they do shop at the place they own and they buy their own product and they commercialize their own system . the rest be actually the romance . not so many of them really seek after total obedience to god or something . they just believe they do . that do not make them so harmful or something but this do not make them so different from their non religious counterpart ( either ) like atheistic and uber leftist mason counterpart .