What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 90
( 90 ) He held religion above other things. We had the means, he said,· to settle disputes. and disagr~ements. about material things : the five senses, the capacity to judge and infer. We also had the sun and the stars to guide us in our knowledge of physical things. Was it possible there should be no means to know the truth in spiritual matters, no light to guide the. . spirit when. it wa~ surrounded by darkness all around ? God's own teaching was unmistakable on the point. According to it, God was ever willing to show the way to those who toiled in search cf spiritual· truths. Says God in the Quran : 'Those who toil in their search for Us. We surely show them the way to Ourselves' (29: 70). In short 'Religion· First' was. the :Principle which the Promised :MeSsiah sought to inculcate in both his followers