The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 374
T he S ystem of M ushawarat m J ama * at - e -A hmadiyya send their reports to Majlis-e-Mushawarat through their representatives. They should specify in these reports what they have done to implement the decision o f the previous year’s Shura, and these reports will be put be fore the Shura for consideration. But it was later realized that a great deal o f time would be spent on analyzing these reports, and no time would be left for anything else. Hence it was decided that the concerned Nazarats would start collecting these reports from October until December. A summary will then be prepared which will be presented in Majlis-e-Shura by the Nazir A ‘la and it will be scrutinized. ” [Report MajUs-e-Shura 1924, p. 10] S hura and W orkers of the J ama ‘ at The scrutiny of the reports regarding the implementation o f the previous year’s decisions slowly took the form of questions. The delegates were even permitted to raise questions about the working of the Nazarats, which would be answered by the concerned Nazirs. But when some people started raising questions which were against the spirit of Shura, Hadrat Musleh-e-Mau‘udra remarked: “I am going to put o ff my main speech till later. We w ill now take up the questions which have been raised. But I must say that I am disappointed. Those who have raised questions have not understood the objective o f M ajlis-e- Shura. I w ill speak about this later on and it is one o f the reasons why I am deferring my speech. You must understand that the Shura and the workers o f the Jama'at are two separate entities. The Shura only 374