4وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظيمٍAli UnalYou are surely of a sublime character, and do act by a sublime pattern of conduct.1The sublime character of God’s Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, and the praiseworthy qualities he had in the greatest degree are known to history and to everybody. Including his fiercest opponents in his time, no one, except some blind, willfully prejudiced orientalists, has ever been able to say anything that could taint his pure person. For an account of his most sublime qualities, see The Messenger of God, 279–309. With his every act and word, he represented the Qur’ān. As his wife ‘A’ishah said, he was a perfect embodiment of the Qur’ān. So the verse also points to this fact and means that every word and act of his is an embodiment of a Qur’ānic principle.