Truth with different manifestations

it is one truth with different manifestations; it is one eternal disease which inflicts people each time with strange side-effects; it is a disease which is handed down from the father to his son; it is a microbe which is transferred from one generation to another.

The strangest kinds of servitudes that I have observed are of the following kinds:

The Blind Servitude:

It is a kind of servitude that binds a man to his ancestors: he bows to his ancestral customs and rituals. These customs produce a new skeleton with an old spirit inside it: he is in fact a grave covered with shiny marble stones.[1]

The Tongue-tied servitude:

It is a life in which the rein of a man’s life is in the hands of an ill-tempered, vexatious wife or a life in which a woman sticks to a man whom she hates.

The ear-tied or deaf servitude:

This is a life in which a man adopts the norms of the community in which he lives. He takes on the color of the society in which he lives.

The Bound servitude:

This is a life in which the individual is entirely dominated by a gang. He is a slave in the hands of a bunch of adventurous, power-monger few. They consider him nothing more than a puppet. He is played with up to the moment when he is useful and then is discarded.[2]

The Grey servitude:

This is the life of those who hypocritically reverse the true value of things: Fraud is celebrated as pure honesty, garrulity and talkativeness is considered as a virtue, weakness and incompetence is considered as patience and cowardice is celebrated as piety.

Wavering and irresolute servitude:

This is the life of the double-minded, cowards who evade telling the truth and are hypocrites in their actions and speech.

The servitude under domination:

This is the servitude that is imposed by an occupant foreign force upon a defeated nation.

The substitute servitude:

This is imposed on a nation when the rein of government is transferred from a father onto his son.

The Black servitude:

This is the state of the mind of a child of a criminal who has to carry the ill - fame all his life.[3]

As we see it was upon the Prophets, the Imams and the Infallible ones to save man from all these miseries and vices. This they did under the supervision of Almighty God.