So in his saying: “an excessive lover whom love takes to other than the truth,” there is an indication to those Ismailis and Qarmatians who said [and believed] in the divinity of the Commander of the Faithful then believed in his appearance in Al-Mu'tazz billah and in Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Al-Adid, the Fatimids, Abdul Karim Aga Khan the Indian, and others, and this judgment includes everyone who deviated in the manner of these, and from the other sect which said [and believed] in the divinity of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, then settled Him in other than Him among the created ones, just as it includes the outwardist Shiites who say [and believe] in his breaking power and that it is within his capability to do whatever he wills, and his breaking miracles are innumerable, and despite that, they consider him created to the Creator and a servant to the Worshiped, so all of these have exceeded the limit, deviated from the path, and descended with the Master from the station of mastery to the land of servitude.

[6] As it also came from our master, his saying: “We are the middle cushion, with which the one who lags behind catches up, and to which the extremist returns.”