Truth in an Age of Confusion: Sayed Fadel Elsayed

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]When something gets repeated so many times, you forget [music] to think for yourself because they're thinking for you.

[00:00:06]Why do you think after the prophet was passed away, what what's what's the first thing that the so-called first oppressor did? What did he do?

[00:00:15]He burnt the books. He burnt the narrations. Why?

[00:00:18]Why is this?

[00:00:20]So, because they don't want our society to think. They don't want you to think.

[00:00:23]Like today, they they want to control you.

[00:00:27]You ever You ever go to the circus?

[00:00:29]You ever see the elephant?

[00:00:31]>> [music] >> Why a little piece of rope controls his leg?

[00:00:36]A piece of rope. You know that how big an elephant is? Why does Why doesn't the elephant just kick the rope?

[00:00:42]Why doesn't he?

[00:00:43]Because when the elephant is young, they put a chain around his leg.

[00:00:47]>> [music] >> And all they do when they when the elephant gets bigger, they they make that because he can't break the chain.

[00:00:53]So, when he as he's growing bigger, they make it bigger, bigger, bigger to the point later on he thinks he can't break the chain.

[00:01:02]So, they put a piece of rope this tied around his leg. He He doesn't move. He thinks He thinks that it's a chain.

[00:01:08]This is what This is what society does to you.

[00:01:11]>> [singing] >> Imam Muhammad al-Jawad says in another hadith, beautiful narration, if the ignorant person was to was to, you know, was to keep quiet, the people would not differ.