Personalityism: Meaning and Implications
There are countless people living in the world. Everyone has a different mood. Every human being is born with some abilities, develops them, and, based on them, makes a distinct identity in the crowd of people. However, some people fail to develop their abilities due to a variety of problems. The work cannot be done, due to which the feeling becomes less and less. When they see other people as better than themselves, they fall into blind imitation without taking advantage of it. This devotion destroys a person's power of thinking and understanding, and they remain mentally enslaved. They do not judge all things in the world on the basis of right and wrong, lie and truth, darkness and light, but they see what their beloved person is saying wrong and what is right. It does not interfere with their personal ability to think and understand. Then the condition of such people is like a moving structure. It is obvious that man is the best of all creatures; the distance and difference between him and other living beings is only 'consideration' and 'prudence'. If he ends this too, then where will his humanity remain? 
If considered, it will be known that the boundary between man and other things is 'Aql'. This is the blessing given by Allah Ta'ala that makes him distinguished from other living beings. Allah Ta'ala created man, made him the best of creation, and gave him the boon of contemplation. Blind following is prohibited in the Holy Quran, and a lot of emphasis is placed on thoughtfulness.
What is personality?
Personalityism is basically a negative behavior in which a person ignores all aspects of justice and reason and makes decisions in all areas of his life on the basis of imitating a personality and blindly following him. Instead of judging any matter of life on the basis of Sharia, blindfolded Following someone is called personalism. In religious matters, leaving the Qur'an and Sunnah and adopting the sayings of 'personalities' and not weighing them on the scale of the Qur'an and Sunnah destroys and destroys human actions.
When people become obsessed with personality, they surrender their thinking and understanding skills to it. Then they think and see as that person shows them. One of the meanings of individualism is that we somehow judge others as better than ourselves and make our successes and failures conditional on others. We keep our thinking and understanding above the niche and follow the will and orders of others.
Personalism is actually the initial stage of 'Shirk'. If we study history, it is known that polytheism originated from personalism. In past nations, when a prophet or a respected person passed away, his followers would make pictures and statues in his memory and gradually forget his teachings and worship only those statues. The deities of Noah's people are mentioned in Surah Nuh in the Holy Qur'an: Yaud, Sawa, Yaghouth, Yauq, Nasr, etc. In Sahih Bukhari, it is narrated by Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas (RA) that these are the saints, the righteous, and the elders of his people. Are the names of After his death, Satan seduced him into worshiping him. (Sahih Bukhari:)
Causes of Personality
One of the main reasons for personalism is 'exaggeration'. It is strongly disliked in Islam. To praise or condemn a person so much that he does not deserve it is called ghalo. For example, the Christians made such an exaggeration in the case of Hazrat Isa (AS) that they called him the son of Allah. It is mentioned in the Holy Quran in these words:
O People of the Book, do not be confused in your religion and do not say to Allah anything except the truth, but Jesus, the son of Mary, is the Messenger of Allah (Al-Nisa’: 17). 1)
O People of the Book! Do whatever it takes not to disregard the limitations of your religion, and express nothing beside reality with respect to Allah. Christ, offspring of Maryam, is the Messenger of Allah.
In elsewhere, Allah says:
Say, O People of the Book, do not deviate from what is true in your religion, and do not follow the ways of people who have gone astray before you and have gone astray many times (Al-Maidah: 77).
You say, O People of the Book! Do not abuse your religion unjustly, and do not follow the desires of those who have already been led astray and have already led many astray and deviated from the straight path.
Another major reason for personalism is a lack of familiarity with religion. In our society, especially among Muslims, there is a very superficial knowledge of religion. They think that it is not possible for them to use the Qur'an and Sunnah directly, so they make a person their muqtada. But it usually happens that they get used to this personality and start blindly following it, and then this imitation gradually turns into the imitation of the religion instead of imitating the personality and preaching the religion in the personality and its promotion and propagation. It changes.
The need for moderation
When we study the good life of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, we can clearly see that he always adopted the path of moderation in the matter of religion, and his companions also followed extremes in religion. Exaggeration is prohibited. It is referenced in a hadith that Hazrat Abdullah Receptacle Abbas RA said that he heard Hazrat Umar Farooq RA saying on the podium that I heard the Prophet SAW saying:
"You people should not exaggerate my praise as the Christians did with Jesus; I am only a servant of Allah, so call me Allah's servant and His Messenger." (Sahih Bukhari)
Islam is a moderate religion, and this attribute is very prominent in all its corners. Allah says in the Holy Quran:
And so he made your nation a mediator (Al-Baqarah: 142).
"In the same way, we made you a moderate Ummah."
Islam neither favors the blind imitation of a personality from which polytheism originates nor does it exclude the following from the end. Rather, it prescribes a'moderate' path between these two extremes so that the path does not go astray from the straight path. For example, he describes the attitude of moderation in the matter of spending as follows:.
And don't make your hand tied to your neck, and don't let it be completely stretched out, so you sit down in shame (Al-Isra': 29). Stay.”
This distinguishing feature of Islam is found in all its corners. Whether it is related to beliefs, worship, ethics, sociology, economics, or any other field of life, moderation and balance are prominent everywhere.
Examples of previous nations
Previous nations could not hold the foot of moderation in their hands. Beliefs, on which all things depend, became inflated. The condition of the Jews and Christians was that they began to exaggerate the respect of their scholars to such an extent that they gave them the status of God. The Holy Qur'an has described his misbehavior as follows:
Take their companions and their teachers from the grace of God (At-Tawbah: 30).
"They took their scholars and dervishes as their lords, besides Allah."
In relation to imitation, not only the people but also a large number of people are suffering from excesses. Such people advocate their religion to such an extent that they do not refrain from interpreting the Book and the Sunnah.
Moderation in imitation
It has been the practice of Muslims in the early centuries to be free from masalik prejudices. When they did not know something, they used to consult the scholars. They used to ask an authoritative religious scholar about the issues they did not know about, without knowing which religion he belonged to. But later, people started acting with prejudice in the matter of religion. He made himself responsible for what Allah had not made him responsible for. In following the religion, they exaggerated to the extent that they gave their imams and jurisprudents the status of messengers and put the following of the Book and Sunnah on a higher level, and because of this prejudice, they are getting further away from the truth. 
Undoubtedly, following a specific religion is not wrong; what is wrong is to consider only one's own religion to be right and other religions to be false. We should keep in mind that no human being is innocent in the world. Every human can make a mistake. A wise man is known to take the good things from people and leave the bad things.
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