The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 111
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J am A‘ at - e -A hmadiyya when these Majalis-e-Shura are attended by the Caliph o f the time himself. Then order is most perfectly main tained. Then everybody is very cautious that he should not say anything which should even inadvertently hurt the feelings o f others. So he is very cautious about choos ing his words, and so on and so forth. What I was thinking about during these discussions was that this sys tem should be maintained in its purity everywhere in the world as if the Caliph is also present there when some body else is chairing. I thought how can be this achieved? Then, immediately, I was reminded o f Taqwa again. Thinking o f Khalifa being present is not enough. I rejected this idea. My train o f thought went to the ulti mate end, that always thinking that God is present. When w e begin to forget that, we go awry, we go astray, we be come corrupted. Everything goes about our deliberations. So this is my last message. Carry it home. Remind eve ryone when you get together for consultations that we are sitting in the presence o f God and before expressing our opinions we must consult ourselves, search our hearts and see to it that whatever we thought was in the pres ence o f God, if it was taking shape in the recesses o f your hearts under the sight o f God, then whatever you say would be blessed. If there were some periods in which you felt as if you were not observed by God, then I as sure you that there you must have made some mistakes. So I hope you’ll keep this in view. I remember, when training my first child I used to emphasize to her that she should not do this or do that because there is God. A l though she could little understand what it was, I wanted to train her in this particularly, because I would not be there throughout my life, I would not be with her. So the only safe rule I thought would be to train her to always 1 1 1