The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 113
the S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya done, from Islamic point o f view , o f course. So I'said the answer is very simple, it should be a no-party system. Neither one-party system is Islamic nor multi-party sys tem is Islamic. No-party system is the only advisable system which can work truly democratically right to the grass root level, where the loyalties are not to the party but to the ideas. The loyalties are to wisdom, to common sense, to the real requirements o f the people as a whole. So this is the Ahmadiyya system. There is no party and everyone is not only free, but is completely and totally unrestricted to follow any group here, or Jama'at or any body else. He has to express his opinion openly and freely according to his own conscience and his own con cepts o f what is right and what is wrong. Preserve this system. Do not let partisan spirits encroach into your healthy system which is devised by God in the Holy Quran. And this was the system which was enacted throughout by Hadrat Muhammad Mustafasa. He freely consulted people and that is exactly what he was advised by Allah: j. e in all important matters consult others. This is the true Islamic Parliament, which is a constant process, but occasionally people are called together, representatives like you who are specially con sulted on some important matter from time to time. But the spirit which I want you to always preserve and guard with all your life and honour whatever you can, is the spirit o f non-partisanship, the institution o f non-partisan aspect o f the Ahmadiyya consultative bodies. And that is why I take very strong exception to the be ginning o f partisan attitudes in the Jama'ats. And sometimes people think that I take very extreme meas ures in dealing with this. When I sometimes hear o f it, I 113