Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 195
195 avoidance of which tends to promote righteousness and purity. It is obvious that it is impossible for me within the limited scope of this paper to deal in detail with all these moral qualities. I need only remark that Islam has, by this process of limitation and regulation, converted every human instinct into a high moral quality, and that no other religion, whether prior or subsequent to Islam, has paid adequate attention to this aspect of the ques- tion. Even those religions which had the example of the Holy Quran before them have failed to solve this prob- lem. It is only the Holy Quran that has solved it in a complete and satisfactory manner. Other religions have contented themselves with an enumeration of the natural instincts of man or of some aspects of them and have given them the name of morals. Islam has provided us with the most satisfactory solution of the problem which has for so long vexed and still continues to vex thinking minds, viz. , what is the true significance of morals? Islam defines morals as the co-operation and coordina- tion of the natural instincts of man. That religion alone can be credited with having provided us with a code of moral teachings which devises means for the proper working of every natural instinct, subject to such restric- tions and limitations, as would operate to prevent any of those instincts from trespassing into the domain of any other instinct. Revenge should not interfere with the proper working of pity, nor should pity overstep its limits and interfere with the proper working of retribu- tion; love should not interfere with hate nor hate with love; each should operate within its own proper sphere without colliding with any of the other instincts, like