What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 83
( 83 ) poi1Hing out these basic truths the Promised Messiah opened a new avenue for the advance of Islam. . It was a small community which collected around. him, but it was a community which valued religion more than the life of this- wo:dd and prepared itself for all manner of sacrifice for the advance of Islam and for the establishment of the spiritual dominion of the. Holy Prophet. There is a moral in this. Ahmadis are outnumbered several thousand times by other Muslims. But the work which other Muslims ar. e doing for the propaga- tion and prQI!lotion of Islam is not even a quarter of wJ1a:t Ahmadis are doing. Why th. is. larg~ difference ? "Obviously hecause the P~omised Messiah (on whome be peace) taught Ahmadis to hold religion above everything ·else~ As soon as AhJ;Dadis learnt the· meaning and value of. this truth, their religious practice$ ,and tJ\eir ·daily lives beG. ame different. T. he