The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 381
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J am A‘ at - e -A hmadiyya they can do so again. Sometimes I m yself make a deci sion and find out later that it was a wrong decision. But the question is: who is more immune from mistakes? Even Prophets are at times mistaken in understanding things, how then can a Khalifa be immune from it? The H oly Prophet*3 once said: If two people come to me with their quarrel, and I decide in favour o f the one who is better at expressing his view s, while he is in fact wrong, he should not take the right I have given him, for in such a case he w ill only be taking a piece o f fire for him self. ” [Report Majlis-e-Shura 1925, pp. 17-24] A nother A spect of the Q uestions R aised during S h C ra In the same Mushawarat, Hadrat Musleh-e-Mau‘udra al lowed some questions to be answered which were, in fact, against the norms of Mushawarat, and he did so because he did not want people to think that something was being hidden from them and this was the reason why their ques tions were not being answered. Hudur said that he was sorry that the questions had been painful for some people, but at the same time he was not angry with those who had asked these questions, and he would pray for them so that God might guide them and they may not be ensnared by the hypocrites in future. Hudur said: “Although these questions were against the norms o f Mushawarat, I permitted them to be asked so that no one could say that the questions were not allowed or not an swered because there was something genuinely wrong. This is not all, I w ill constitute a sub-committee compris ing o f the same delegates who raised these questions, and shall order all the relevant office record to be put at their 381