What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 79
( 79 ) two· movements in the promised Messiah's time. One said, 'We Muslims have become weak, let us ask for political power and make ourselves strong. ' The other was the movement initiated by the Promised Messiah which said, 'Let us work for religion, God will take care of the world. ' Some have wrongly taken the Ahmadiyya Movement for yet another Sufistic order. There are Sufis who lay great stress on prayers and fasting. They send their followers into cloisters and behind walls. Excessive worship makes them useless for anything else. The Pro- mised Messiah did nothing of the kind. Had he done so, he would have been one of those who promise a kernel but pre- sent a shell. He insisted on true •religion and on the true function of true religion. True religion sharpens our intellect and illumines our understanding. True religion, truly, cultivated, raises our moral