The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 249
T he S ystem of M ushawarat tn J am A‘ at - e -A hmadiyya this is why I am always hesitant to issue more rules and more laws and things. This is a natural tendency in the world, that once you begin to create rules, laws and things, then the spirit is sometimes relegated to the back ground and a very formal, dry structure is created. As far as I have learnt from nature and God’s creation, it should be the other way around. In the process o f life, the dead things are pushed out and the live phenomenon begins from within outwards. Now, in the modem tendencies, the fact is that when you make new rules, laws and regu lations, somebody misinterprets it, sometimes somebody goes beyond his jurisdiction to take certain actions. In stead o f attending to the problem o f a wrong person and correcting him, they go for making new rales, and that creates deadwood in the centre, which is very detrimental for the day to day running o f the administration. That is why, I instructed the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya to revise the rales o f W asiyyat, etc. , and to minimize the rales as far as possible. I think let’s first experiment with this book. Let the Jama'at show their response and try to leam the Ahmadiyya traditions from these books, and when in doubt they should always refer to me about the ambiguities which they consider are left in certain word ing, etc. , and then, I think, from day to day I w ill be able to explain to them what really is meant, or I may reach the conclusion that the wording is not correct and we w ill change it to a better wording. For the time being, I think that should suffice. Other things were raised here by Mr. Gakuria. They indicated the mishandling o f affairs by certain Amirs. That is a completely different problem. However big a book may be o f law and regulations, etc. , if the authorities are twisted slightly, or even in their in nocence, they are not experienced, they can always make 249