Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 31
31 firmly in the Holy Quran and is a Movement of Mus- lims, it cannot be ranked merely as one of the sects of Islam. On the contrary it claims that it alone presents to the world the real Islam that was revealed over thirteen hundred years ago, and that its special mission is to enrich mankind with the unlimited spiritual treasures contained in the Holy Quran. The existence of this Movement is not the result of the culmination of any particular idea, nor is it the last wave of a natural current set in motion by any particular sect or school of thought. It is an entirely new current which has, on the one hand, moved rapidly back through thirteen centuries and, on the other, is pressing forward through the present into the future, supplying from the inexhaustible treasures of the Holy Quran all the new and varied needs of man- kind. It is a current which has united not only the East and the West, but has also brought together the past and the future. We can now confidently assert that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , to whom was revealed the final and perfect code of law, was an Adam for the perfection of the law, and that the Promised Messiah as , who had been sent by God to demonstrate to the world the vast extent of the spiritual sciences and philosophies of the Holy Quran, which satisfy the needs of every age, was an Adam for the perfection of the interpretation and propagation of the law, as the first Adam was the Adam of the physical perfection of man. It was necessary for me to dilate on this aspect of the Ahmadiyya Movement, for, as I have indicated, the Ahmadiyya Movement is not the name of any new religion. If I had proceeded to discuss the teachings and