Satan flees from him and never confronts him directly—for if he were to confront him, he would be consumed by fire.
He said: [And likewise] 1 is the case for whatever partakes of this within the self (al-nafs) and the spirits.
Among them are those who said: "It is the self." Others said: "It is the spirit of strength and the spirit of desire"—and these are the bewildered, wandering spirits. As for the Spirit of the Divine Proof (Ruh al-Hujjah), it is faithful and self-subsisting.
Therefore, whosoever claims that 'Ali is a name of humanity (nasut) and Allah is a name of divinity (lahut) has effectively rendered 'Ali a human [name / body] 2 , while leaving Allah as a name of an unseen divinity, and viewing 'Ali merely as a created human form. Such a person claims that God invented the Name from the Light of His own Essence—which is the warned-against, holy self, and the speaking entity within Muhammad, majestic is his glory, and after him within 'Ali, and Imam after Imam down to the congregational leader (Imam al-jama'ah) who belongs to the totality of humanity—while God remains an ungraspable, absolute Unseen, and the Light of the Essence is veiled by the