the tyrants of the earth pursued Him, queries and responses multiplied, doubt broke forth, and corrupt doctrines emerged.
Examples of these included Ishaq and his companions, as well as others among the Incarnationists (al-Hululiyyah). Among them were fabricators and those who asserted that God incarnates into the Veil, the Gate, the Orphans (al-Aytam), and others from among the ranks of the hierarchy (ahl al-maratib). They went so far as to say that He incarnates into the tempered, articulate human creation out of the human form; that He encompasses it, while it serves as His veil; and that He is an Unseen realm that can neither be comprehended nor witnessed except through the human form. They pointed to the Imam who stood at the head of the community and declared: "This is the Meaning for the seekers beneath him." May God curse them, and curse whoever utters their discourse or walks [their path] 1 . That is because [all the other stations] 2 manifested station after station and person after person, and the proofs emanated from the manifest stations and the perfect, existing stations,