Our Own Lens

You and I are gonna have to come up with our own system, our own thought, our own fields of study, our own disciplines, our own way of understanding the world, our own paradigms, our own interpretation of reality based on our own sources of knowledge. And I mean you have to dismantle everything that they gave you, everything that they gave you for understanding the world. You need to remove that lens that they gave you to look through because it just distorts everything, you know. Have you ever put on someone's glasses? Right?

Someone's glasses that aren't your prescription. Prescription glasses that are not designed for your eyes, not designed for your vision. Well, you can't see in those glasses. Allah gave you prescription lenses. He gave you exactly the prescription that you need and if you try to wear any other lenses, it will only make your vision worse and you'll be walking around blind.

Especially those western lenses because in fact they didn't give you anything but blindfolds. That's what they gave you. They gave you a blindfold and quality glasses. But once you take the blindfold off, you take the take off those blinders and you get your prescription lenses back on, then you can start to see the way things really are.