The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 116
T he S ystem of M xjsh A warat jn J am A‘ at - e -A hmadiyya you have made a final conclusion and have reached a judgement—because your decision is in relation to God—then you must stick to it firmly. And 4 I 1 I that is the part which has disclosed the secret o f the philosophy. From I infer that cJ fjs. means: Because you have taken the decision to please God, it is the responsibility o f God to help you, and He w ill. So this is how I read the underlying message o f this verse, and this is what I want you to understand and always prac tice meticulously. Allah be with you and may Allah always be pleased with us and with our thinking phe nomenon. The result may be wrong, but if the thinking phenomenon is pleasing to God, we have nothing to fear. ” [Report International Majlis-e-Shura 1990, pp. 96-100J This was the gist o f the Friday Sermon delivered by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IVrl1 in which he directed Ma- jlis-e-Shura to guard against negative tendencies. In the same context, he also instructed the Jama'at to protect itself from innovations in religion and deviation from the right path. Hudur said: [English] “But this is the process through which innova tions are sifted out. Shura is one o f the instruments which helps Khalifatul Masih to realize that there is a danger o f innovation. So, as such, it is not objectionable. This has been discussed before and this argument has been enter tained, alright, in principle. Later on, if the other side made the rest convinced on particularly, they let us say make the Khalifatul Masih convinced, there is no innova tion involved, then the matter was carried. ” [Report International Majlis-e-Shura 1991, pp. 23-24] 116