Are the phrases describing the Prophet, peace be upon him, as "founder of the university of human values," "founder of the largest reform movement in the universe," "founder of the technical institute for the human mind," "founder of the college of soul engineering," "founder of the college of self-management," "founder of the college of divine natural disposition sciences," "founder of the college of cultivating good," and "founder of the college of rituals for all languages" valid, considering that these terms may be newly coined and deviate from Islamic terminology?
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was sent with noble morals and sound values to refine souls and purify them, as Almighty Allah says: "Certainly did Allah confer [great] favor upon the believers when He sent among them a Messenger from themselves, reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom, although they had been before in manifest error" (Quran 3:164). And in the Hadith: "I was sent only to perfect noble character."
However, expressing it as "the founder of the College of Ethics" is inappropriate and contains two pitfalls: 1. It diminishes his status, peace and blessings be upon him, as he was sent to all mankind, and his religion spread to encompass billions, unlike someone who founds a college from which a few thousand graduate. 2. It overlooks the fact that the prophets before him, peace be upon them, came with the aforementioned values and morals, and countless people believed in them before his mission, peace and blessings be upon him, as in the Hadith about the عرض الأمم (presentation of nations).
Such invented titles detract from the status of prophethood, and the stature of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is greater than that. Allah Almighty has disciplined us by saying: "Do not make [your] calling of the Messenger among yourselves as your calling of one another" (Quran 24:63).
Therefore, one must abandon such artificialities and instead propagate his great characteristics with which Allah honored him in this world and the hereafter, such as being sent to all mankind, being the صاحب الشفاعة العظمى (possessor of the greatest intercession), and the first to enter Paradise.
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