The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"