Our Sheikh, may God sanctify his soul, used to include the Meaning, Mighty and Majestic, within the number of the Imams, majestic is their glory, only before the people of the outward (ahl al-zahir) so that he would not face denunciation; yet he isolated Him inwardly, and the believers understand his riddle and allusion.
Therefore, whoever asserts that the Meaning is simply one among the number of the Imams, majestic is their glory, has disbelieved, associated partners with God, and is cursed just as Abu Dhuhaybah [and the people of] 1 the Incarnationists were cursed, and just as the Sheikh, may God sanctify his soul, said:
You have denied God, O transgressor
And you have associated partners with Him, failing to recognize.
Explain to me: against which of them
Are you a defamer and a faultfinder?
So reflect, O you who are stripped of insight, upon how the Sheikh isolated Him from the entirety of the Lineage, excluded Him from their count,