The prophet once said “a pack of wolves setting upon a flock of sheep will not do more damage than the desire for leadership will have on a person’s faith (iman.)”

Imam Jafar Sadiq once said ‘By Allah, we do not give leadership to anyone who desires it.”

This is an excellent article. In this age of Internet, one would think more and more masjid boards would be transparent in their dealings. One of the ways I think organizations can become more open is to post the meeting minutes and votes online.

In these days of twitter and facebook, board members and other committee chairs must be required to blog about their activities for the masjid.

About consensus, as it is said, Not everybody can have their way, but everybody need to have their say,

Quaid

But I don’t like the ideas I see in some of the comments where people seem to endorse getting involved in Islamic organizations for personal reasons; either for status or power. Our intentions should always be to please Allah.

Alhamdulillah, in my short lifetime, I’ve always managed to be involved in some respect with the leadership of whatever community I belonged to, without lobbying for certain positions.

This article is awesome mashaAllah.

Personally, it also applies to all types of Islamic organisations and if you read in between the lines, you’ll pick up some great wisdoms in how to deal with people and get results.

It also goes down to who is actually running the organisation and those people in power, if they have the attitude to improve and their team are motivated, ANYTHING is possble. InshaAllah.

JazaakAllahu khayrun for the beneficial article, I hope you write some more on such topics akhi!

I’ll pass this on to a lottt of people insha Allah and I hope they benefit as I have. :excited:

wassalaam.