The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 296
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama 1 at - e -A hmadxyya nouncing the final decision regarding the procurement of land for Maqbarah Musian in foreign countries, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IIIrh sought the views o f Tehrik Jadld regarding the recommendations o f the sub-committee, upon which Sahibzada Mirza Mubarak Ahmad, Wakil A ‘la, Tehrik Jadld presented the Tehrik’s viewpoint. [Report Majlis-e-Shura 1976, pp. 154-156] C opies of the S ub -C ommittee R eport The sub-committee reports would sometimes be very lengthy, which would make it difficult for the members to discuss them. A delegate, therefore, made the follow ing suggestion: “I suggest that in view o f the importance and length o f the reports, and because they admit o f diverging view s or require some explanation, their copies should be circu lated among the members at least a little time before they are to be discussed. And if it is not possible to provide these copies to every member, they may be distributed among groups. ” In response to the above suggestion, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IIIrh said: “The practice o f Shura is that copies o f the recommenda tions o f the sub-committee are not supplied to all the delegates. The recommendations can, however, be taken up one by one, as I have already instructed. The report which has been provided to Wakil ATa is incomplete. I do not know who supplied it to him. It was not the same that was presented to me, and that is why he had to wait so long. It has, therefore, been decided that, instead o f 296