إِلَيْهَا ١وَ أَيْقَنَ بِأَنَّ النَّارَ حَقٌّ فَطَهَّرَ ٢سَعْيَهُ لِلنَّجَاةِ مِنْهَا وَ أَيْقَنَ بِأَنَّ الْحِسَابَ حَقٌّ فَحَاسَبَ نَفْسَهُ وَ أَمَّا عَلَامَةُ الْمُخْلِصِ فَأَرْبَعَةٌ يَسْلَمُ قَلْبُهُ ٣وَ يَسْلَمُ جَوَارِحُهُ ٤وَ بَذَلَ خَيْرَهُ وَ كَفَّ شَرَّهُ وَ أَمَّا عَلَامَةُ الزَّاهِدِ فَعَشَرَةٌ يَزْهَدُ فِي الْمَحَارِمِ وَ يَكُفُّ نَفْسَهُ وَ يُقِيمُ فَرَائِضَ رَبِّهِ فَإِنْ كَانَ مَمْلُوكاً أَحْسَنَ الطَّاعَةَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ مَالِكاً أَحْسَنَ الْمَمْلَكَةَ وَ لَيْسَ لَهُ مَحْمِيَةٌ وَ لَا حِقْدٌ يُحْسِنُ إِلَى مَنْ أَسَاءَ إِلَيْهِ وَ يَنْفَعُ مَنْ ضَرَّهُ وَ يَعْفُو عَمَّنْ ظَلَمَهُ وَ يَتَوَاضَعُ لِحَقِّ اللَّهِ وَ أَمَّا عَلَامَةُ الْبَارِّ فَعَشَرَةٌ يُحِبُّ فِي اللَّهِ وَ يُبْغِضُ فِي اللَّهِ وَ يُصَاحِبُ فِي اللَّهِ وَ يُفَارِقُ فِي اللَّهِ وَ يَغْضَبُ فِي اللَّهِ وَ يَرْضَى فِي اللَّهِ وَ يَعْمَلُ لِلَّهِ وَ يَطْلُبُ إِلَيْهِ وَ يَخْشَعُ لِلَّهِ خَائِفاً مَخُوفاً طَاهِراً مُخْلِصاً مُسْتَحْيِياً مُرَاقِباً وَ يُحْسِنُ فِي اللَّهِ وَ أَمَّا عَلَامَةُ التَّقِيِّ فَسِتَّةٌ يَخَافُ اللَّهَ وَ يَحْذَرُ بَطْشَهُ وَ يُمْسِي وَ يُصْبِحُ كَأَنَّهُ يَرَاهُ لَا تُهِمُّهُ ٥الدُّنْيَا وَ لَا يَعْظُمُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْهَا شَيْ ءٌ لِحُسْنِ خُلُقِهِ ٦وَ أَمَّا عَلَامَةُ الْمُتَكَلِّفِ فَأَرْبَعَةٌ الْجِدَالُ فِيمَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ وَ يُنَازِعُ مَنْ فَوْقَهُ وَ يَتَعَاطَى مَا لَا يَنَالُ ٧وَ أَمَّا عَلَامَةُ الظَّالِمِ فَأَرْبَعَةٌ يَظْلِمُ مَنْ فَوْقَهُ ٨بِالْمَعْصِيَةِ وَ يَمْلِكُ مَنْ دُونَهُ بِالْغَلَبَةِ وَ يُبْغِضُ الْحَقَّ وَ يُظْهِرُ الظُّلْمَ

for it (1); and he is certain that the Fire is real, and so purifies (2) his striving for deliverance from it; and he is certain that the reckoning is real, and so calls himself to account. As for the mark of the sincere, it is four: his heart is sound (3), and his limbs are sound (4), and he expends his good and restrains his evil. As for the mark of the abstinent, it is ten: he abstains from forbidden things, and restrains himself, and performs the obligations of his Lord; so if he is owned he is excellent in obedience, and if he is an owner he is excellent in ownership; and he has neither partisan zeal nor rancour; he does good to whoever has done him evil, and benefits whoever has harmed him, and pardons whoever has wronged him, and humbles himself for God's right. As for the mark of the dutiful, it is ten: he loves in God, and hates in God, and keeps company in God, and parts in God, and grows angry in God, and is pleased in God, and works for God, and seeks from Him, and is humble before God — fearing, feared, pure, sincere, modest, watchful — and does good in God. As for the mark of the God-fearing, it is six: he fears God, and is wary of His seizing, and passes evening and morning as though he sees Him; the world does not trouble him (5), and nothing of it looms large for him, because of the goodness of his character (6). As for the mark of the affected, it is four: disputation about what does not concern him; and he contends with one above him; and he undertakes what he cannot attain (7). As for the mark of the wrongdoer, it is four: he wrongs the one above him (8) by disobedience, and possesses the one below him by domination, and hates the truth, and displays wrongdoing.