You see him obtaining a doctorate from an American or European university and feels that he is affiliated with the West…
You see him obtaining a doctorate from an American or European university and feels that he is affiliated with the Western academic community with its thoughts, values, and standards, and looks down on the history of his nation.
O you who are infatuated! And the speech is about a recurring phenomenon, not a specific person, I say to you and I have graduated from their universities as you have, and I have excelled in their sciences as you have, if not more:
If you do not see the science that came with Muhammad peace be upon him better than all sciences, and the nations without it in ignorance and darkness no matter how much their cities are illuminated and their universities multiplied... then neither you nor your science!
If you do not believe that an hour of the hours of Bilal or Khubab on the embers of Mecca enduring torture in defense of the true religion is better than the ages of doctors who do not believe in Allah in their laboratories and from their discoveries... then neither you nor your science!
If you do not see Sumayya, the mother of Ammar bin Yasir, greater in your estimation than the ignorant blondes... then you have not known nor understood..
Tomorrow, all that you see will vanish, and the earth will be changed into another earth, and the truths will appear, and Allah will set the scales of justice... Neither wealth nor sons nor buildings nor science nor certificates will benefit... except he who comes to Allah with a pure heart filled with monotheism, believing in the great truths.
(And those who have been given knowledge say that what has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, and it guides to the path of the Mighty, the Praiseworthy) (Surah Saba).