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32 principles of the Movement which are wholly based on the Holy Quran, without this preliminary explanation, a certain amount of confusion might have arisen and it might have been difficult to understand whether I was speaking of the Ahmadiyya Movement or of Islam. It must now be perfectly clear that Ahmadiyyat and Islam are one and the same thing, and that by Ahmadiyyat is meant that real Islam which God has manifested to the world through the promised one of the present age. It is based wholly on the Holy Quran and the law of Islam, and yet it is entirely different from the other existing sects of Islam in its teachings and its doctrines. It has first re-discovered many truths which had been alto- gether lost sight of, and has, secondly, for the first time, revealed to the world many new truths relating to the special conditions and needs of the present age. These truths were presented by the Promised Messiah as who has enriched the intellectual and spiritual worlds by discovering many spiritual sciences which lay hidden beneath the words of the Holy Quran. Hence when in the course of this paper I refer to the teachings of Islam I shall be referring to the teachings which are in conso- nance with the point of view of the Ahmadiyya Move- ment irrespective of the fact, whether they are accepted by other Muslims or not, and when I refer to the teach- ings of the Ahmadiyya Movement, the reference will be to the teachings of Islam and not to any new doctrine or teaching.