Shia condemns Ghulat

Shaykh al-Mufeed wrote about Ghulat (in his book Sharh aqaid al-Sadiq, p. 239)

"the Gulat (zealots or extremists) who claim to be Muslims ascribed divinity or prophecy to Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Imams of his posterity and in effect transgressed the limit in describing their eminence in religion and in this world. Hence they are heretics condemned by Imam Ali to death" and the Imams ruled that they committed heresies and forsook Islam.

Sermon 127 in Nahjul Balagha about the Kharijites

With regard to me, two categories of people will be ruined, namely he who loves me too much and the love takes him away from rightfulness, and he who hates me too much and the hatred takes him away from rightfulness.

The following is taken from dartabligh (Source)

A Muslim becomes Mushrik if he portrays any of the Prophet or Imam in any way or in any form as God or like God or part of God.

Ayatullah al-Uzma As-Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei describes Ghulat as a kind of Shirk and Kufr, and writes; “Those who believe one of the holy twelve Imams to be God or say that God has penetrated into him are Kafirs.” (article 107)

Imams have cursed those people who give them Divine attributes and call them in a way as some body is calling God.

During the time of Hazrat Imam Jafer Sadiq (as), some one attributed some false hadith to his father, Hazrat Imam Muhammad Baqir (as), in which various aspects of divinity were attached to the Imams, notably Amir ul- Muminine Hazrat Ali(as). The people who were spreading these fabricated ahadith were the followers of Mughir bin Said and those of Abi Khattab Muhammad bin al-Assadi.

When Imam Jafar Sadiq (as) heard about this, he said;

“May Allah curse Mughira bin Said as he used to tell lies against my father, May Allah make him taste the heat of burning iron, May Allah curse those who say about us what we do not say ourselves, May Allah curse those who try to make us away from the servitude of Allah, Who created us, and to Him is our return and in His hand is our control”. (Rijal al-Kishi)

Precisely, according to the teaching of the Holy Prophet (sws) and his Ahlal Bayit (as), if anyone knowingly or ignorantly commits any of the following act, then he has committed a major Shirk.

• To consider any Prophet, or Imam, or a leader as an Independent Power.
• To portray the Prophet, or any Imam as god or like a God.
• To give the Prophet, Imam, or anyone, attributes of Allah or Divine titles which make them to look like a God.
• To associate anyone of them with God in His Power of Execution.