The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 300
T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ‘ at - e -A hmadiyya There is no doubt that some matters have to be consid ered even a thousand years in advance, but it is futile at this moment to consider whether 20 or 25 members should manage a university which may be established sometime in the future. When the time comes for imple menting such a project, people w ill work out the necessary details. The only issues we should take up at this stage are those which may cause future generations to go astray if we do not provide proper guidance about them now. The matter o f establishing a university does not fall into this category. ” [Report Majlis-e-Shura 1940, pp. 30-33J V ague and U nclear R ecommendations T* Hadrat Khallfatul Masih III made the following obser vations regarding such recommendations: “The recommendations o f the sub-committee are not specific. In item number 1, it has been recommended that parents who can send their children to Rabwah for memorizing the Holy Quran should do so. This is a vague recommendation. If parents o f one thousand chil dren opt to make use o f this opportunity, do we have enough provisions in the budget to cater for them? The sub-committee has made no recommendations for such an eventuality. Thus its recommendations are vague. If the suggestion had been for accommodating 20 children this year, it would have been possible, but it w ill become impossible if we say that all children who wish to memo rize the Holy Quran may benefit from the scheme. Such recommendations do not go beyond offering goodly counsel. O f course a word o f good advice can be in cluded in Mushawarat, but on the whole only concrete recommendations should be presented here which help 300