Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (as): Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (as) said: "Persevering with an action is harder than [performing] the action itself." Then he was asked: 'And what doe’s preserving an act mean?' The Imam (as) replied: "A man maintains relations with his kin and spends in the way of Allah, the One, Who has no partners, therefore, [the reward of] a good deed which was done in secret is recorded for him, then he mentions his good deed in the presence of others, thus the very good deed is recorded as something done in public, then he mentions it again and this time it is recorded as something done for showing off." al-Kāfī