قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الرَّجُلُ يَعْمَلُ الْعَمَلَ وَ هُوَ خَائِفٌ مُشْفِقٌ ثُمَّ يَعْمَلُ شَيْئاً مِنَ الْبِرِّ فَيَدْخُلُهُ شِبْهُ الْعُجْبِ بِهِ فَقَالَ هُوَ فِي حَالِهِ الْأُولَى وَ هُوَ خَائِفٌ أَحْسَنُ حَالًا مِنْهُ فِي حَالِ عُجْبِهِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Hajjaj who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The man does the (good) deed and he is fearful, worried. Then he does something from the righteousness, so something like the self-importance enters into him due to it’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘His being in his first state while he was fearful is a better state than him being in a state of self-importance’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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