What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 82
( 82 ) them as. . . . · true Ahmadis:. Such -Ahm. adis wiU ~ve· missed. the kernel for the· shell while God· values the kernel, not the shell. So in oth. er religions practices the _Promised Messiah urged the importance of the spirit rather than the form. The injunctions of Islam,. he said, were rooted ~n· wisdom, not. one, which was not p. regpant with ~eaning. God was to be ~n not with the physical eye, but with a pure heart. · Contact with Him was attained not through physical means but through love and devotion. Religion seeks no rule over the five senses or o"\,er the external actions of. man. If it propounds rules for the five senses oF for m:rternal. actions, it is in order 'to in- fluence the feelings thoughts and motives of man; to sharpen his- intellect and purify the recesses of his heart·. It is in order that man may see God, that he rna y come in dose contact with Him and hear His· voice. By