Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 342
342 worship and remembrance. So that today they present this spectacle to an astonished world. Their minds are enlightened with the new learning of the West and are imbued with whatever may be beneficent in the new thought of the age, yet their hearts are full of Divine love and their heads remain bowed down before their Lord. They spend their days and nights in the remem- brance of God and though they are equipped with the highest secular learning they set their faith above every- thing else, and their lives present true models of the teachings of Islam. The Promised Messiah as liberated people from the bondage of the social laws of the time and opened out to them a field of free and independent thought so much so that despite the opposition and hostility of the followers of all religions, and despite the tendencies of the age, his followers are engaged, day and night, in the social reformation of the world in conformity with the teach- ings of Islam. They are striving to correct the life of ease and luxury lived by others into one of reformation, chastity, and good morals. The Promised Messiah as has not created fanaticism or religious frenzy among his followers, neither has he made the love of his own person the essence of his religion and the centre of his system, as is the way of those who seek to inspire a spirit of sacrifice and self-denial among the people at the cost of other noble qualities. He has assigned to everything its proper place, and has made every effort to keep alive and strengthen the faculty of reason in man. Notwithstanding their rational outlook his followers are ever ready to sacrifice their lives and belongings for the