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222 general principles pertaining to Shirk (polytheistic tendencies) and Bid‘at (innovations) should be presented to the public before the presentation of the personal claims of the Promised Messiah as. (5) That undue prominence should not be given to the question of the death of Jesus. Other doctrines of Islam should also receive due attention. (6) That the moral tone of the Ahmadiyya Community should receive special attention for its improvement. (7) That the Ahmadiyya Community had proved slack in the work of propagation, which duty required their special attention. They had ceased to show ordinary courtesies to non-Ahmadis, although remissness in propagation was primarily their own fault. (8) That the true guides to Islam were healthy instincts and a sound teaching, not merely prophecies. It was, therefore, the greatest temerity to speak of the teachings of the Holy Quran as dead. (The reference here is to what was said in reply to the suggestion made by The Watan , viz. that all omission of the Promised Messiah as would leave only a dead Islam for presentation to the world—Author). If Ahmad and Muhammad were not different in their teachings, why