If we adopt Western knowledge as-is, we will accept a lot of false ideas which have been accepted as true by the west.
Lecture 2: Distinguishing between Right and Wrong
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّهِ
3:110 YOU ARE indeed the best community that has ever been brought forth for [the good of] mankind: you enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong, and you believe in God.
At the beginning of each action (amal), we renew our intention to make our worship and struggle and living and dying purely for the sake of Allah. In our study of today, we make the intention of serving Allah, by carrying out the duty of taking his message to all of humanity. This duty has been explicitly assigned to the Ummah of the prophet Mohammad, s.a.w. in the Quran.
1. Preliminaries
SUMMARY: An inferiority complex generate by defeats on battlefields, colonization, as well as awe of technological achievements leads us to undervalue our own Islamic traditions, which is a big spiritual problem