if he does an act of obedience he should preserve it and take it into account like someone who seeks forgiveness with his tongue or glorifies god during the night and day for example a hundred or a thousand times then backbites muslims and says things that god does not like throughout the day and pays attention to what has been reported about the virtue of glorifying god and neglects what has been reported about the punishment of backbiters liars gossipers and hypocrites and that is pure delusion so preserving his tongue from sins is more important than his glorifications.
وإذا عمل طاعة حفظها واعتد بها كالذى يستغفر بلسانه أو يسبح فى الليل والنهار مثلا مائة مرة أو ألف مرة ثم يغتاب المسلمين وتكلم بما لا يرضاه الله طول النهار، ويلتفت إلى ما ورد فى فضل التسبيح.. ويغفل عما ورد فى عقوبة المغتابين والكذابين والنمامين والمنافقين.. وذلك محض الغرور فحفظ لسانه عن المعاصى آكد من تسبيحاته.