The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 250
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J am A‘ at - e -A hmadiyya mistakes in the implementation o f these laws, and rules, etc. If these things happen, they should be treated on that level, not on the level o f rules and regulations to bind them more and more. Then the problem w ill be that you w ill bind the hands o f some Amirs, and rightly perhaps, but then you w ill be binding the hands o f many other Amirs unnecessarily, leaving very little room for them to perform their day to day duties. So what has been done, let’s consider it sufficient for the time being and during the next two or three years we w ill be able to revise this issue again. I w ill tell you in essence what it is. As I have tried al ready, we have tried to capture the best o f the traditions o f Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya into print, and these traditions have already been, in many cases, converted into rules and regulations, and in some other cases, they have not been converted into rules and regulations. So also we have tried to explain the philosophy o f the running o f the organization, day to day responsibilities and prerogatives o f Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya, W aqf Jadid, Tehrik Jadid, Khuddamul Ahmadiyya. Everything has been introduced here to make the Ahmadi members fully understand how the system runs under the Caliphate. ” [Report International Majlis Shura 1989, pp. 59-67] A r r a n g e m e n t s f o r M a j l i s - e - M u s h a w a r a t In view o f the increasing importance and growing needs of Majlis-e-Mushawarat, Hadrat Musleh-e-Mau‘udra is sued some comprehensive guidelines. Fresh arrangements were required for Shura every year, and necessary items had to be acquired on rent, which were not only costly but were also difficult to g et Hudur, therefore, instructed the 25 0