Ilah (deity) is that which is deified by the heart with perfect love and glorification, with

exaltations and respectfulness, with fear and hope, and the like.
Ibn al-Qayyim wrote,
When the servant knows that Allah alone is in charge of harming and benefiting, giving and withholding,
creating and providing, giving life and bringing about death, it produces the acts of worship of completely
putting ones trust and reliance in Him in ones heart, and what such reliance necessitates of trust and
outward deeds. The servants knowledge about Allahs hearing, seeing and knowledgenot even the
smallest of physical particles in the heavens and earth is unseen to Himand that He knows the secret
and hidden and the deception of the eyes as well as what is hidden in the breasts produces in the person a
keen guarding over his tongue, physical limbs and thoughts in the heart to keep them away from everything
that is displeasing to Allah. Furthermore, it makes him involve those bodily parts in acts that are beloved
and pleasing to Allah. This in turn produces an inward shyness. It also produces a shyness that makes the
person avoid the forbidden and evil acts. [The servants] knowledge of Allahs self-sufficiency, generosity,
graciousness, kindness and mercy makes the person become very hopeful in Allah. Furthermore, it
produces in him similar acts of external and inward forms of worship in accord with his level of
understanding and knowledge. Similarly, his recognition of Allahs grandeur, greatness and magnificence
produces in him humility, submission and love. It also produces in him internal emotions and feelings of
worship as well as the external acts that these require. Similarly, his knowledge of Allahs perfection, beauty
and exalted attributes manifests itself in a special kind of love found in the different levels of worship.
Hold loosely to all that is not eternal

Whoever learns sacred knowledge for the sake of the next world is unsettled by his learning,
his heart is humbled and his ego lowered.
Faith is of no avail if arrogance exists, as in Iblis.
The Messenger (pbuh) said, Arrogance is belittling to admit the truth and considering
people inferior. (Muslim)
Arrogance is refusing to acknowledge what is right and considering others to be inferior.
(Hakim)
No one with the slightest particle of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise. (Bukhari)
How fleeting are our worldly gains, and how foolish are we in feeling proud of them! Let us
then live as meek and humble servants of God on earth.
From "Ihya Ulum-ud Deen" (The Revival of the Religious Sciences) 3: 9
The Prophet (pbuh) once asked his companions;
Do you know what will cause you to have high walled palaces in Paradise (as a symbol of
great reward) and will cause you to be raised by God? When they replied in the negative, he
said,

To be forgiving and to control yourself in the face of provocation, to give justice to the
person who was unfair and unjust to you, to give to someone even though he did not give to
you when you were in need and to keep connection with someone who may not have
reciprocated your concern.
Politeness is part of the attitude of the believers, and it is lowering the wing of humility to
people, speaking gently, and not speaking harshly to them, which are among the best means
of creating harmony.

Ibn Battal, Fathul Bari (v. 10, p. 528)

I guarantee a house in Jannah for someone who gives up arguing, even if he is right.
The Prophet in Imaam Nawawis Riyaad us-Saaliheen [b. 1, no. 630] (via v72)