The servant [the scribe] found that the author of this book, through all the evidence he cited—including the reports of Siffin (Siffiniyyat), the Kufa reports (Kufiyyat), and the miracles of the earth and the heavens, as well as the poetry of the Masters—everything indicates the Divinity of Ali ibn Abi Talib. We have no worshipped object other than Him.

May Allah the Exalted curse whoever demotes Him from the rank of Meaning (Ma‘nawiyya) to the rank of Name (Ismiyya); upon such a person be wrath and disgrace. Such a [false] doctrine resembles the school of Ali ibn Kashka and Zayd al-Hasib, as mentioned regarding them by the brilliant and learned Master Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Jawhari—may Allah sanctify his soul—in a poem of his, the beginning of which is:

'I saw my God while I was awake,

And indeed, this is the ultimate limit [of knowledge].'

Until his saying in it:

'They said that the High One (al-'Ali) is but a Name

For an absent one who cannot be seen, a [mere] boaster.'"

If the scribe were to fully exhaust what has been mentioned regarding our Master, the Prince of the Faithful [Ali]—may His power be exalted—from epistles, sermons, testimonies, and poems, it would in itself fill vast volumes that none could count except Allah the Exalted.