is composite like them,without realizing that everything they witnessed was inherent within themselves [and bound to them]1
This is precisely what this Hatimite sect (al-Firqah al-Hatimiyyah) believed: that 'Ali was a created being appointed for God to speak through, and they deemed the form to be the garment of the Creator, binding themselves exclusively to the witnessed human aspects.
As Abu 'Ali al-Sawwaq al-Basri, may God the Almighty have mercy upon him, stated: "As for the weak among the 'Aliyyah, they are [infidels] 2 without a doubt, because they say: 'So-and-so is God, and so-and-so is God,' meaning the created, circumscribed person when divine power manifested through him. They mistakenly assume that he is the one who brought it forth. According to them, power is simply the utterance of the Imam to whomever he addresses, and he is their Lord, while they claim that there is no pathway toward the Unseen. They have merely [confined themselves] 3 to the Imam being the human form itself,