Can this community have leaders who are not religious or who...

Can this community have leaders who are not religious or who have no warmth for religious beliefs? A: "Leadership of Jamaat" is not a position laid down by shari'ah; it is an 'urfi institution, i.e. based on conventional or customary system and practice. As such a Jamaat or community, in most of the cases, gets the leaders it deserves; and the leaders' moral excellence or decadence serves as a mirror of the moral standard of the electors.

It is they who elect the leaders and it is for them to think beforehand what type of representatives or leaders…