“Visitors to the Prophet’s tomb in Medina are sometimes beguiled from their prayers by a large calligraphic device fixed directly above the entrance. Those who have time to decipher it find a line of verse which announces the presence of ‘A Great Prophet, whose created nature was the character which the Merciful has magnified in the Master of Books.’ This is the epitaph which Islam has chosen for its founder; a celebration not of his conquests, his divine knowledge, or his eschatological glory, but his akhlaq: his noble traits of character.” From the Preface of the translation of Imam Ghazali’s The Breaking of the Two Desires