What is the ruling on studying foreign secular laws?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is the ruling on studying foreign laws, such as French or English law or others, in universities, and studying regulations and obtaining degrees in them?

Answer:
It is not permissible to make that a system or a curriculum in universities that competes with fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and competes with the sciences of the Shari'ah and the language, because we are Muslims who study our Shari'ah and study our language. Indeed, Allah has made us self-sufficient with that and honored us over other people. So do not make this a general curriculum in universities that competes with the Islamic sciences and linguistic sciences, because we are Muslims, our religion is Islam, and our constitution is the Qur'an. This is what it is obligatory for us to study, and it is obligatory for universities in the Islamic world to have their curriculum follow this pattern: studying the Islamic sciences. As for individuals, if one is proficient in the sciences of the Shari'ah and wants to look into the laws in order to know what falsehood is in them so he can refute it and respond to it, then that may have a valid aspect, because it is for his correct purpose, which is refuting falsehood.
And looking into the evils in these laws and their contradiction of the Shari'ah, so he refutes them and exposes their defects. As for those who are proficient in the sciences of the Shari'ah and in distinguishing truth from falsehood, there is no harm in looking into them. But as for making this part of the curricula in Islamic universities and having it compete with the Islamic sciences, and some countries calling it the Faculty of Shari'ah and Law, Shari'ah and Law, making the law equal to the Shari'ah, this is from falsehood and is not permissible.