The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 265
T he S ystem of M ush A warat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya gest before the Shura that he wishes to offer Tahajjud prayers at Masjid Mubarak, such a proposal would have nothing to do with the Jama'at as a whole. It is his per sonal matter and he is free to do so if he so w ishes. ” [Report Majlis-e-Shura 1944, p. 74] 3. In the same context, Hadrat Khalifatul Maslh IIra said: “I have emphasized time and again that it is useless to place before the Shura matters pertaining to institutions whose functioning is dependent on their own income. If a scheme is good and beneficial and members o f the Jama'at are contributing towards it, it can be implemented. But if people are not prepared to make contributions for it and do not seem to approve o f it, there is no reason why the Jama'at should take the responsibility upon itself. A simi lar sort o f proposal was submitted by Nazir Ta'lim. He suggested that the High School at Ghatialian should be upgraded to higher secondary school. The fact is that when the school was established, members o f the Jama'ats in the area pledged to make contributions to meet its expenses, but they failed to do so. Thereafter, the school was up graded to a middle school, and then to a high school, but the local Jama'ats still did not offer any financial assis tance. Now Nazir Sahib has suggested that this school should be upgraded to a higher secondary school. No doubt, there is a high school at Rabwah whose expenses are borne by the Jama'at, but this is in Markaz, and the whole Jama'at has to make contributions towards it. On the other hand, it is not obligatory upon the Jama'at to make contributions for a school in a village in Sialkot Dis trict. It is the duty o f the local Jama'ats to bear the expenses o f their own school. . . Such proposals should be considered by the relevant 26 5