Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 30
30 and simplicity, but also presented the Holy Quran to the world in a light which served at once to satisfy all the intellectual needs of mankind which the rapidly chang- ing conditions of the world had brought into existence and to furnish a key to the solution of all future difficul- ties. Mankind is undoubtedly being harassed by com- plicated social and political problems and is thirsting for spiritual knowledge. Not finding any solution of these difficulties in current religious literature, some people have become disgusted with religion itself, and others are adding to these difficulties by endeavouring to frame new codes of law. But as you will presently discover, the solution of all these difficulties has been provided for in the teachings of the Promised Messiah as. It was no doubt, contained in the Holy Quran, but a part of it was like water which had been rendered impure by the introduction of noxious matter (i. e. , false and impious interpretations) and a part of it was like a fountain flowing deep under the earth, hidden from the eyes of men. He distilled the impure water and discovered the subterranean channel, and removed the veil from our eyes, and opened wide the door to a vast field of re- search and discovery, thus providing for the ever- increasing needs of mankind, without in the least going outside the scope of the teachings of the Holy Quran and interfering with that form of Islam which was established by the Holy Prophet sa and which it is the will of God to preserve till the end of days. Once this is realized, it will be easy to compre- hend that although the Ahmadiyya Movement believes