When exactly the same problem is placed before another one...

When exactly the same problem is placed before another one of them he passed on an opposite verdict. Then thses judges go to the Imam who had appointed them and he confirms all their verdicts, although their Allah is one, their Prophet is one, their Book (the Qur’an) is one.

Their learned Man is Hypoerite Describing the people of his time: Know that you are living at a time when those who speak of right are few, when tongues are blunt to utter the truth, and those who stick to the right are humiliated. The people of this time are engaged in disobedience. There youths are Quarralsome, their old men are sinful, their learned men are hypocrites. Their youngs do not respect their elders, and their rich men do don’t provide for the destitute.

They act through doubts It is not that every man with a heart is intelligent, every ear does not listen, and every eye does not see. I wonder, and why shouldn’t I wonder, about the faults of these groups who have introduced alterations in their religious proofs,. They act on the doubts and tread in (the way of) their desires. For them good is whatever they consider good and evil is whatever they consider evil., their resort for resolving distress is to themselves.

Their confidence in regard to dubious matters is in their own opinions as if everyone of them is the leader (Imam) of himself. As if he has decided himself he considers it to have been taken through reliable sources and solid bonds. Scold the self O’ slaves of Allah, weigh yourselves before you are weighed, and call it to account yourselves before you are called to account. Breath before the suffocation of the throat. Be submissive before you are harshly driven.

Know that He who is not helped in acting as his own adviser and scold then no one else can (effectively) be his adviser and scold.

Beware Speaking to his son, Al-Hasan: O’ my son, you should avoid making friends with a fool because he may intend to benefit you but may harm you; you should avoid making friends with a miser because he withdraws from you when you need him most; you should avoid making friends with a sinful person because he sells you for nought; and you should avoid making friends with a liar because he is like a mirage, he shows you remote things as near and near things as remote.