The Orient Islamic School in Durban has replaced the Muslim principal who served the school for 18 years, with a non-Muslim.

Answer

Allah Ta'ala says in the Qur'aan Majeed: "Never will Allah Ta'ala make a way for the kaafireen over the Mu'mineen."(Aayat 141, Sura' Nisa'). This aayat is of general import in its meaning and scope. The Fuqaha state on the basis of this aayat that it is not permissible for a kaafir to be appointed a guardian over Muslims. By what stretch of Islamic logic or demand of Imaan could the trustees of this so-called 'Islamic' school appoint a non-Muslim as a guardian and controller over Muslims, including Muslim females? Perhaps the trustees are not Muslims, hence they fail to discern anything amiss in this haraam appointment.

How is it possible for a man who wallows in perpetual physical and spiritual janaabat, who has no conception of Istinja and Tahaarat in general, who is bereft of the slightest idea of Hijaab and Islamic morality to be placed in charge of hundreds of Muslim boys and girls? The trustees, if they are Muslims, have indeed committed a vile misdeed. Regardless of any shortcomings which they may have discerned in the Muslim principal who has served the school for almost two decades, it remains haraam to appoint a kaafir over Muslims, especially females.

If the Muslim principal was genuinely unqualified for the task, could they not find a Muslim in the entire Muslim community as a replacement? Are all Muslims in the whole Muslim community morons according to the moron fussaaq trustees? We give them the benefit of the doubt and label them as fussaaq, for perhaps they are Muslim, hence we stop short of the kuffaar label.

The state of the Ummah is indeed deplorable. The effect of fisq and fujoor in which the modernist trustees indulge is the fossilization of brains, hence their thinking process has atrophied. When the brains of supposedly intelligent 'Muslims' have become so darkened as to fail to understand the self-evident evil and impermissibility of appointing a non-Muslim as a guardian over Muslim males and females, then the idea that they are munaafiqeen is justified. The parents of the children are equally blameworthy and responsible for this appalling state of affairs which has gutted whatever little semblance of Islam the school may have had once upon a time.