What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 94
( 94 ) denied to the world had. been received by him, he said, through the grace of the Holy Prophet. There are many things which the Promised Messiah said or did, and they are all very important and. far-reaching; but, compared with this central contribution of his to· Islam, they must count as small and secondary His central contribution was that he initiated a movement to persuade· people to hold. religioa above all things, and to prefer spiritual ends and means to material ends and means. . The future of Islam is bound up with this realiZation. We must leam to. regard· spiritual ends and means as very much more importan4. than physical ends and means. . We must use guns in defence of the lands in which we- live. Some of our'ettemies will yield to nothing else. But the worid·wide renaissance of Islam for which we wait will not come except through the spiritual means inculcated by