"Traditionally, Sunni Islam has also strictly emphasized that the miracle of a saint, however extraordinary it may be, is never in any way the "sign of a prophetic mission," and this has been stressed in order to safeguard the Islamic doctrine of Muhammad being the Seal of the Prophets.The doctrine of the "karāmāt al-awliyāʾ", which became enshrined as an orthodox and required belief in many of the most prominent Sunni creeds of the classical era such as the "Creed of Tahawi" (ca.