The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 371
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in jama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya has not understood the importance o f Majlis-e-Shura. Perhaps they are being motivated by some feeling o f ri valry or they just want people to come here and vent their resentments. The Nazarat has made the same mistake this year as it has done in previous years. A ll the blame has been shifted to Nazir Baitul Mai, but the fact is that noth ing substantial has been done to implement the decisions o f Shura during the past few years, although there has been a lot o f improvement. This year I particularly want to stress that decisions o f Shura must be implemented, and I hope that due attention w ill be given to this matter in future. The fact is that no system can survive unless its rules and regulations are fiillyadhered to. I believe that 95% o f the common people suffer from this fault, as is also evident from my Friday sermons. There are very few indeed who are safe from this malady. I believe that it is wrong to break the law and not to try to modify it. The people o f Hindustan do not seem to understand that they should either follow an injunction or, if they believe that it is not possible to do so, they should have it changed. When they say that a certain thing cannot be done, they are only deceiving themselves, because there is a world o f difference between something being difficult and something being impossible. When a thing is impossible, it implies that it cannot be done under the law o f nature, but what such people actually mean is that they have not been able to discharge an obligation due to some difficul ties. In fact they consider even a little bit o f hard work to be ‘im possible’, whereas a truly impossible thing cannot be done by anyone. I am not sure about the Hindus, but I know about the Muslims— for I often come into contact with them—that they do have the tendency to declare every difficult thing to be impossible, and they tend to 371