The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 115
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya him. He was always angry with them. Once I spoke to some person, I said: ‘Behave! What you are doing is Shirk, and Shirk can never please a Khalifa. Your goal is to please him, and when you judge him because you are distorted within, you judge according to your own measures. So, instead o f trying to judge him, know what the Holy Quran says. Familiarize yourself with the traditions o f Islam, and when you show your loyalty to those traditions, even if your personal judgement is that it may displeases the Khalifa, you should leam that your judgement is wrong. You should judge that you have ill- treated your own Khalifa by considering him to have an opinion which is against your knowledge o f the Holy Quran. So thereby you can never please him. So the ultimate advice to you is: always please God. And when you do that, you w ill always please every godly person, whoever he is. You w ill never displease anyone, any officer who is godly, I mean. If somebody is sordid, let him be displeased. You do not miss anything, you do not lose anything if you displease a person who is not permanently identified with the values o f Islam. So guard these values. It is a very precious institution. N o other institution in the world exists as the institution o f Shura in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya. The last thing which is mentioned in the H oly Quran regarding the Shura is. The decision lies with you. You must consult people but, having consulted them— because you are not loyal to the party, because you, o f all the people, are loyal to God more than anybody else— so take your decision after consultation, according to what you judge the right thing to please God. So, that is why consultation is left out after that. It is said when 115