Are leadership courses permissible?

Answer

Leadership courses are inspirations of shiataan. The quest for leadership is a carnal lust which destroys a man in this dunya and the Aakhirah. It is haraam to seek leadership. If leadership is thrust on a person without his desire for being a leader, Allah Ta'ala will aid him. On the contrary, if he submits to his lust and pursues leadership as is the incumbent practice of all politicians and even of juhala molvis of today, then Allah Ta'ala casts such slaves of the nafs to the wildly fluctuating vagaries of the capricious masses. Islam prohibits the quest for leadership.