What should a student do regarding the elections held in universities?

The Shaykh : Okay, what else do you have?

The questioner : The issue is that in Aden, the university that controls the student council has a session leader, and there are committed young men and there are young men with foreign ideas, and I seek refuge in Allah from that. The university administration requires that elections be held, so some of the young people were hesitant because of your recent fatwa regarding the elections in Yemen.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : It is widespread, so what is the solution to this issue?

The Shaykh : My brother, the fatwa reached you in six pages.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : The fatwa in six pages reached you.

The questioner : The fatwa reached us without us hearing the text, only through verbal circulation.

The Shaykh : No, my brother, that is not enough. We published a fatwa in six pages. We sent it to Algeria, then we sent a copy of it to Yemen, and its summary is that we do not advise a Muslim young man to run for office in government elections. This is the first point.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : And secondly, if there are many parties in a certain region or country, some of which are Islamic and some are not, then in that case we advise Muslims to vote for the best of them, on the basis of repelling the greater evil with the lesser evil. Do you understand this?

The questioner : Understood.

The Shaykh : And this is what is applied in any elections held in a university, or in a company, or in any place.

The questioner : Yes, yes, now it is clearer.