I composed the two aforementioned verses because some among our Shia who have been stifled by the exoteric knowledge said: "The Commander of the Faithful is a human being and possesses a lineage like us." This is manifest disbelief, according to the saying of the Exalted in Surah Al-Imran: {How shall Allah guide a people who disbelieved after their belief and had witnessed that the Messenger is true and clear signs had come to them? And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people. Those—their recompense will be that upon them is the curse of Allah and the angels and the people, all together. Abiding eternally therein. The punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be reprieved. Except for those who repent after that and correct themselves. For indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. Indeed, those who disbelieve after their belief and then increase in disbelief—never will their repentance be accepted, and they are the ones astray. Indeed, those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers—never would the [whole] capacity of the earth in gold be accepted from one of them if he would [seek to] ransom himself with it. For those there will be a painful punishment, and they will have no helpers} (Al-Imran 86-91).

As for the believers, they have recognized him with certainty—that {He neither begets nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent}— and they believed in him, his angels, his books, and his messengers, making no distinction between any of his messengers. They heard and obeyed, both by heart and tongue. Because He, the