4وَرَفَعنا لَكَ ذِكرَكَAli UnalAnd (have We not) exalted for you your renown?1The name of the Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, is mentioned along with God in the proclamation of faith: “There is no deity but God, and Muhammad is His Messenger. I bear witness that there is no deity but God, and I also bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger.” The Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, is the person most loved, and most correctly loved, by people. He is a person about whom thousands of poems, articles, and books have been written. God has sent His blessings and peace on him for 14 centuries; and His angels, as well as millions and millions of people, have been calling for the same for 14 centuries. And this will continue to happen until the Last Day. Even the enemies of the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, have admitted that he is the greatest of creation, the person who has influenced human history more than any other. Yet no one has ever deified him, and God has always purified him of the slanders of his biased foes. See Lamartine’s tribute to him quoted in sūrah 33, note 11. Moreover, the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, never misused the glory and fame he had won; he always lived as if he were an ordinary man among the people, and he remained the most modest of all during his entire life. So his glory and fame served his cause, not himself.