AN EXAMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF A NON-MUSLIM IN ISLAMIC ORGANISATION
The world is created in such a way that no one cancompletely exist independent of another especially when itcomes earning a living. Thus, engagement in oneemployment or the other becomes inevitable. In view of the inability of the government to provide employment for alland sundry, private organisations sprung up to fill the largevacuum within their limited capacities with faith-basedorganisations not left out. The problem of job andemployment discrimination thus ensued. Hence the topicaldebate whether a non-Muslim can be employed in anIslamic organizational setting. The study relies on thedoctrinal method of legal research to examine the legalimplication of Qur’an Chapter 4 verse 144 on employmentof non-Muslims in an Islamic organizational setting. Thestudy explores the general rules and exceptions pertainingto non-Muslim employments in an Islamic organization.The study finds that the positions of Islamic jurists foundedon the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad copiously supportedemployment of non-Muslims in Islamic organization withsatisfaction of certain conditions precedent includingobservance of non-discrimination, meeting jobrequirements and qualifications, respecting religiousbeliefs of one another within the organizational setting andlegal considerations. The study recommends activeemployments of non-Muslims in Islamic organisations as away of showcasing the beauty of Shari’ah principles to thenon-Muslims for proper inevitable human peaceful coexistence. 

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