Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 210
210 and the only enjoyment which he gets out of it is the added care and anxiety of keeping it safe. Thus Islam gives reasons for commending or condemning different moral qualities, and enables people to judge of their nature. Means of Acquiring Good Morals and of Avoiding Evil Ones The function of religion is not merely to point out good and bad moral qualities, but also to provide or devise means by which men may be able to renounce evil and adopt good morals, for without this all our effort is vain and our search profitless. I am unable to say what the answer of other religions is to this ques- tion, but I am happy to be able to state that Islam or Ahmadiyyat furnishes a complete and satisfactory answer to it. The first means of moral improvement furnished by Islam is through the manifestation of Divine attrib- utes, without which the attainment of moral perfection is impossible. In all things man stands in need of dem- onstration; he can easily learn through demonstration what he cannot acquire through books. In the absence of demonstration all sciences and arts would be lost to the world. For instance, can anyone learn chemistry or engineering or any other science without the aid of experiments and demonstrations? The same is the case with moral training. Man cannot attain to moral perfection without the help of perfect models and demonstrations. It is necessary, therefore, that perfect models should appear again and