The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya

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The System of Mushawarat in Jama'at-e-Ahmadiyya — Page 396

T he S ystem of M ushawarat in J ama ^ at - e -A hmadiyya (v) It should find out whether a Department is over spending. It should inspect the offices and determine which o f them is incurring unnecessary expenses and to what extent. [Report Majlis-e-Shura 1929, pp. 68-69] A ppointment of a C ommission to O versee the W ork of the N azarats The Investigative Commission presented its detailed re port to Hadrat Musleh-e-Mau‘udra at Mushawarat 1930. Hudur praised the Commission for its hard work and ap proved many o f its recommendations, but took strong note o f one o f its recommendations which was related to Khilafat. We shall discuss this in detail in the next chap ter, for it sheds light on the relationship between Khilafat and Majlis-e-Shura. Hudur did not rely on the recommendations o f this Commission, but constituted another one to examine the matter further and come up with more suggestions. Hudur said: “I hereby appoint another Commission to oversee the work o f the N azarats. . . I am sorry to say that the Nazirs did not extend to the Commission the cooperation that was expected o f them. Although the Commission has ac knowledged their cooperation and has thanked them, this has been done more as a formality. The fact is that the Nazirs did not cooperate. The reason they have given is that since people had been warned against trying to pres surise the Commission, they did not want to appear before it lest it should be influenced by them. But the members o f the Commission are not infants that they should be pressurised in this way. What the directive 39 6