Self-Oppression

You've been taken hostage and you call it freedom. You're a hostage and you call yourself free, but you have no sovereignty over your own self. You're a hostage to your desires, you're a hostage to your urges, a hostage to your vanity, to your ego, to your greed, to your appetite, to your self indulgence, your control. You're dominated, you're oppressed, you're humiliated, you're degraded and you treat yourself with no respect, you treat yourself with no honor, with no dignity, with no nobility, it's unnatural. And then you wonder why you're miserable?

Because you left your derelict instead of refining it, instead of training it, instead of disciplining it, and molding it, and controlling it. You have subjugated yourself as an individual in the name of individualism. You've deprived yourself of your rights in the name of upholding your rights. You have enslaved yourself in the name of freedom. So now instead of being a regal, refined, responsible, sovereign Khalifa upon the earth, you're just a a cluster of impulses to be manipulated.

You're a puppet to your own desires, betraying your own potential and your own innate purpose. Well, this approach is never gonna deliver you happiness, this approach is never gonna deliver you contentment, it's never gonna deliver you freedom, and it's never gonna deliver you liberty, it won't even preserve your rights as an individual. It can and only ever has delivered you into captivity. Do you understand me? So, yes, the first thing that you need to understand is that the whole framework and all the paradigms around morality and around moral behavior in the West, all of that is illegitimate and deceptive.

They devalue you as a human being, they deprive you as a human being, and they degrade you as a human being. You've been taught the complete opposite, the complete opposite of what's true regarding morality. You were taught that morality means, like I say, repressive rules that restrict you, that I don't know, stifle you or hold you back instead of hold you up. You were taught that adhering to a moral code makes you rigid, makes you narrow minded, makes you impractical or makes you docile, makes you afraid of experience, makes you afraid of progress and so forth. It makes you, I don't know, judgmental, makes you harsh, makes you close, or whatever the case may be.

They have so many ways, they have so many ways to stigmatize morality, it'll make your head spin. And it makes it very obvious, SubhanAllah, it makes it very obvious that the last thing that they ever want you to be is a moral person. The closest that the the the the closest that they will ever come to approving morality is if that morality is completely vague and vapid.