Re: What does Popularity mean to you?
Though there always is a voice inside every human being to become popular (one way or the other), but I would agree to a dua of a pious muslim I heard a long time ago. I wish one day I am able to think like that.
" O' Allah! I want to die in a way that no one praises me, no one remembers me, no one is aware of any of my good deeds, everyone forgets that once I even existed on this earth, but I only want to be successful infront of you on the day of Judgement"
^ Probably the dua was of a Suhabi (r.a)
Mostly saints in the past only wanted to be successful infront of Allah and disliked popularity infront of people, but after their death ALLAH (swt) made their name alive among people for generations, e.g. Imam Ghazali, Maulana Rumi, Imam Abu Hanifa,.......etc. People still go to graves of such saints and pray for them. With the permission of ALLAH no one could ruin their graves.
On the other hand alot of kings who tried their best throughout their lives to become popular among people and get their name written in golden words in history, died in a way that people in the later ages didn't even know their graves.
Allah knows BEST