Madinat al-Muslimeen Islamic Message Board
| High School MSA President |
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| Anonymous |
| 10/31/01 at 10:17:43 |
| Assalamulakium, We have a problem with our high school MSA President. He does not practice proper Islamic conduct. For example, our president will hang out with girls, and has had many girlfriends. He has also gone to activities that are not in accordance with Islam like attending a Hindu Religious Service celebrating their goddess by dancing until 3:00 am in the morning. A Hindu girl came and told us at how touched she was that he came to their festival and was so excited that he came and that he was "moderate." What should we do? How are we to approach him? Should we ask him to resign? We did not know of his past behavior until after he became president. He never was organized and was always so critical that we wanted to organize dua events or service projects. What should we do? |
| Re: High School MSA President |
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| kiwi25 |
| 11/04/01 at 20:16:38 |
| salam, hmmmm, this is a tough situation and this brother needs to either A. clean up his act or B. resign you should have the other officers talk to him (if there are any), and dont do it at an msa meeting with others around just to watch him, itll make him uncomfortable and just leave. tell him he is supposed to be a positive MUSLIM role model and if he still acts up, then you need to impeach him (have a vote etc) and get another reliable president the only thing is after he leaves etc, he is still going to need muslims around him so he wont fall any deeper in his situations. inshallah maybe se7en can help you out with this more than me because she actually had an msa in her high school inshallah ive helped out some...... wasalam nouha:) |
| Re: High School MSA President |
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| Kashif |
| 11/05/01 at 11:57:51 |
| assalaamu alaikum If you are going to go down the road of giving him the choice of (a)sorting of himself out or (b)stepping down, prepare yourself. - Choose a person with nice manners to speak to him on behalf of the brothers and sisters at your MSA. A person who can't control his temper might aggravate the situation by handling the situation incorrectly. - If ultimately, the current President leaves his position do you have someone better ready to take over? Kashif Wa Salaam |
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| Re: High School MSA President |
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| se7en |
| 11/06/01 at 00:05:05 |
| as salaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllah, We were actually accused of "being lead by fasiqs" because one of the sisters on the shura committee (a nice name for the five of us who organized stuff) didn't wear hijab. This problem wasn't really resolved before I graduated, so I don't know if I can help you :-/ Here's my question: Can you list for me, specifically, what action/behavior the bro has engaged in that makes him incompetent as your MSA president? I think it's *very* important to distinguish between your concerns for this brother as your MSA president, and your concerns for him as your brother in Islam who has recently engaged in some shady behavior. Just make sure that your own personal feelings, even if they are warranted, don't get in the way of you dealing with this unemotionally and objectively. Do you have a constitution? What responsibilities and duties does MSA president have? Has he neglected his duties? What is your process for dealing with officers that are not performing them? My advice would be to go through the process your MSA has set up and deal with this as professionally as possible. This isn't a time to act self-righteously or to criticize your brother in Islam. The brother is not going to stop his behavior if you all gang up on him and make him feel guilty. The shura, or your vice president, or whoever your constitution designates, should meet and discuss these issues with him. Get some feedback from him, and work together on coming to the best solution for you as an MSA. Don't look at this as an "us vs. him" sort of conflict; you're just trying to address issues of concern and deal with them in the way that is best for everyone involved, inshaAllah. wAllahu a'lam. wasalaamu alaykum. |
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