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Fazle Umar 150 approximately three thousand. In the conference of 1964, the last one during the second Khilafat, the attendance was over seventy-five thousand. In the Annual Conference of the dissident group, the attendance seldom, if ever, exceeded two thousand and then began to decline progressively so that in 1976 the attendance did not reach even four hundred, of whom at least two hundred were members of the Community. C O n S OL I d AT IO n OF T H E M O v E M E n T Even the first few years of his Khilafat, in which differences with the dissident group continued acute and their activities claimed a sizeable portion of the time and attention of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] , his efforts were primarily directed towards the consolidation of the Community and converting it into an effective instru- ment for the achievement of the purpose for which it had been established, that is to say, to bring about the supremacy of Islam over all other religions both through precept and through example. While his addresses and writings aimed at the stimulation of the higher moral and spiritual values in the hearts of the members of the Community and their practical manifestation in action, he did not neglect any of the multifari- ous factors that awaited his attention and had to be speedily attended to. One of the most important of these was the organisation of the administrative machinery of the Community, that is to say the casting of the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya into an effec- tive and practical mould. This he carried out with such farsighted effectiveness as has successfully stood the test of trials and time. It is true that in the course of time his own dynamism and the dynamism of the Community, which was continuously stimulated under his fostering care, called for additional organs and institutions which were set up when their need arose, in such manner that the possibility and risk of conflict between the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya and the new institutions was obviated altogether. The