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T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya Shura, rather it should inform the Shura that the matter has been referred to the relevant Department. The fourth eventuality may be that a proposal is related to the Shura, but cannot be placed before it due to time constraints. In such a case, it should be announced that the proposal w ill be included in the Shura Agenda the following year. Since every proposal w ill necessarily fall within these four categories, it is not enough merely to announce that we have barred certain proposals from being tabled be fore the Shura, Full explanation should be given as to which o f the four categories the proposal falls under and what decision has been taken with regard to it. If this procedure is followed, the person or the body initiating the proposal w ill be satisfied, and the thought w ill not cross people’s minds that a useful proposal had been re jected unreasonably. Instead, they w ill understand that the procedure adopted was the appropriate one. ” [Unpublished Report Majlis-e-Shura 1948, pp. 1-3] P r o p o s a l s P e r t a i n i n g t o A d m i n i s t r a t i v e M a t t e r s Administrative matters need not be placed before the Shura, for they can be disposed of by Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya or the other Anjumans. Once, when such a proposal was being discussed in the Shura, Malik ‘Abdur Rahman Khadim Sahib, Amir Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya Gu- jrat, raised the following point: In the presence o f clear instruction by Hudur that admin istrative matters and matters o f detail do not need to be placed before the Shura, the current proposal should not be presented here. Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya can itself take a decision about it. (This proposal was about hold 262