" could not accept the fact that Muḥammad was a true prophet because he was not one of the elite of “the two cities,” that is, Mecca and Ta’if. In their view, Muḥammad was too ordinary for them, too much like them, to have been chosen for such a lofty station. They felt, “How can he be a prophet, while he is like us, and we are not prophets? "

― Hamza Yusuf , Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart