The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 139
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya Try, therefore, to understand your responsibilities and always select competent people as your representatives. I think that the Jama'at has not yet fully realized the sig nificance o f Majlis-e-Shura. They merely consider it a committee in which they must send a representative to avoid embarrassment. It has, therefore, not been given the required attention. . . If in our Jama*at there happen to be hypocrites, people o f weak faith, people who do not offer their prayers, braggarts, accusers, and people whose hearts are devoid o f the fear o f God, this Majlis w ill be affected by partisanship. Loyalties w ill be divided and quarrels, disputes, and disturbance w ill ensue, just as it sometimes happens in weak and naive Jama'ats when a President or some other office-bearer is to be elected. Different sections o f the Jama'at canvass for different people and, instead o f thinking seriously o f a suitable person for the job, each party wants its candidate to win. Such disputes and such partisanship, if it starts in Majlis- e-Shura, w ill not do us any good either materially or spiritually. The people who are sent here should be o f such strong faith that, when it comes to the interest o f the Jama'at, they should not listen even to their parents, let alone that they should give ear to everything and start talking against the Jama'at. This kind o f people should stay as far from Majlis-e-Shura as possible, and there can be no question o f sending them as representatives. This time some Jama'ats have been guilty o f negligence in this matter, but I hope that Jama'ats w ill remember these instructions in future. I would like to ask the con cerned staff to publish this portion o f my speech, and keep publishing it on the occasion o f every Mushawarat, so that the Jama'ats should only elect those people who 139