Real Revolution — Page 149
• 149 verse of the Holy Book had been abrogated, a storm of fury was raised against him which has seldom been excelled. Today, however, one would hardly find any well read Muslim subscribing to the view that there is abrogation in the Holy. Quran. The interpretation which the Promised. Messiah gave to the verses which were held to have been abrogated has generally come to be accepted, which furnishes a clear case of the great triumph achieved by the Ahmadiyya Movement in the field of doctrine and belief. . The triumph of Ahmadiyyat and the field of Action. The success of the Ahmadiyya Movement in field of action, however, is by no means so clear and manifest, since we cannot so far claim that we have driven the rival orders and systems out of the field and established the Islamic order instead. . The reason is obvious: there can hardly be any question of perfection on the practical side of religion without the creation of a strong organiza tion to uphold and propagate the aim of the phi osophy. All that the Movement has been able to achieve so far is reformation in the body of the doctrine and personal individual action, and the creation of a system of some financial backing for the programme of the Movement in the form of subscriptions from individual members. But individual effort can never take the place of regular