Ma`rifat

This paper examines the servanthood of true believers and Shi'ites. With regard to the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth signs of the true Shi'a and the righteous, Amir al-Mu'minan says: «يَسْتَبْطِئُ‏ نَفْسَهُ‏ فِي‌الْعَمَلِ وَ‌هُوَ مِنْ صَالِحِ عَمَلِهِ عَلَى وَجَلٍ، يُصْبِحُ وَ‌شُغْلُهُ الذِّكْرُ وَ‌يُمْسِي وَ‌هَمُّهُ الشُّكْرُ، يَبِيتُ حَذِراً مِنْ سِنَةِ الْغَفْلَةِ وَيُصْبِحُ فَرِحاً لِمَا أَصَابَ مِنَ الْفَضْلِ وَالرَّحْمَة»؛ "They regard themselves as negligent and remiss in their deeds, and are not even assured about their righteous deeds; they invoke the name of God until morning, and thank God until night. When they go to sleep, they are afraid of a sleep of negligence, and they wake up in the morning while they are happy with the grace and mercy of God.”