دَخَلَ رَجُلَانِ الْمَسْجِدَ أَحَدُهُمَا عَابِدٌ وَ الْآخَرُ فَاسِقٌ فَخَرَجَا مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ وَ الْفَاسِقُ صِدِّيقٌ وَ الْعَابِدُ فَاسِقٌ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ يَدْخُلُ الْعَابِدُ الْمَسْجِدَ مُدِلًّا بِعِبَادَتِهِ يُدِلُّ بِهَا فَتَكُونُ فِكْرَتُهُ فِي ذَلِكَ وَ تَكُونُ فِكْرَةُ الْفَاسِقِ فِي التَّنَدُّمِ عَلَى فِسْقِهِ وَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِمَّا صَنَعَ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ .
Translation
From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Abu Dawood, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5<sup>th</sup> or 6<sup>th</sup> Imam<sup>asws</sup>) having said: ‘Two men entered the Masjid. One of them was a worshipper and the other one an immoral one. So when they both exited from the Masjid, the immoral one was truthful and the worshipper was immoral, and that is because the worshipper entered into the Masjid with a feeling of self-importance with praising (and being boastful about) his worship. So his thinking happened to be in that (state), and the thinking of the immoral one happened to be in the remorse upon his immorality, and he sought the Forgiveness of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic from what he had done from the sins’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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