The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 346
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ' at - e -A hmadiyya budget by Rs. 1,600,000. The increase should have been in keeping with the real income. Each year the income exceeds the budget, and, whatever our budget, the income is sure to exceed it. But we have to adopt some rules for drawing out the budget. It is not right to close our eyes and say that today the budget is one crore, let us make it 4 crores for the next year. This would be wrong. We w ill have to base our budget on some prin ciples and also hope that God w ill grant us even more income. Until a year ago, the practice was to increase the budget estimates by ten percent, irrespective o f the in come. This year the increase in the budget is twenty-two percent, instead o f ten percent, and has been worked out on the basis o f last year’s income, rather than the esti mated income o f the current year. So, if the income increases, it w ill be good and there w ill be nothing to worry about. But if you increase the budget, let us say by Rs. 2,000,000, the Departments w ill start demanding vari ous amounts and you w ill spend money according to the pre-determined estimate. So if you make a budget o f the expenditure, but your income falls short o f the exaggerated expenditure, it would cause a great deal o f apprehension. ” (Report Majlis-e-Shurii 1980, pp. 37-38] S adr A njuman A hmadiyya C annot C ut its B udget without A pproval On one occasion, while the budget o f the Anjuman was being discussed in Shura, certain amendments were pre sented by a Department, which would increase the budget by Rs. 40,000. Hadrat Musleh-e-Mau‘udra asked the dele gates for their opinion. 153 supported the view that Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya should be given permission to ac 34 6