Learning something from an excellent and ideal person and doing it regularly takes one to great heights.
Dispelling bad manners through bodily worship is very difficult.  Perform the deeds of the heart and wait.  Through this itself, a day will come that it will dispel all bad manners and qualities.
Dhikr is like an axe which cuts away the thorns of stray thoughts and whisperings of Satan from around the heart.
To follow the rules of the body is Shariah, to create peace and Jami'at in the heart with effort is Tariqat.  The settling down of this peace and Jam'iat in one's Batin (the inward or the interior) is Haqeeqat.
From this Ummah, the distortion of the faces has been removed.  However, the distortion of the Batin still remains.  Not regretting a sin, how great it might be and never admonishing one's Nafs (base desires, ego) and ignoring if anyone brings it to attention, these are all sings of distortion of the Batin.
The essence of worship is concentration and devotion and humility.  Getting this depends on that the greatness of Allah Ta'ala being fixed in the heart and this is not gotten without the love of Allah Ta'ala and the love of Allah Ta'ala is not gotten without following the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and the following of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is dependent on the knowledge of the laws of Islam, so follow the scholars who are the inheritors of Islamic knowledge and save yourself from the company of those scholars who use knowledge for garnering money and status.
He passed away on Saturday, 29th Rabe'e Ul Awwal, 895 Hijri.  Thousand of people converge at his blessed grave in Samarqand in the locality of Kaftheer.