The three types of people when it comes to Wilayah

Here is an interesting narration that describes the three types of people when it comes to the Wilayah of Ali (as):

عَنْ أبِي جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ: إنَّ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ نَصَبَ عَلِيًّ عَلمَاً بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ خَلقِهِ، فَمَنْ عَرَفَهُ كَانَ مُؤْمِنًا، وَمَنْ أنْكَرَهُ كَانَ كَافِرًا، وَمَنْ جَهِلَهُ كَانَ ضَالًّا، وَمَنْ نَصَبَ مَعَهُ شَيْئًا كَانَ مُشْرِكًا، وَمَنْ جَاءَ بِوَلَايَتِهِدَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ

Aʾbi Jʾafar said: 

God, the Most Majestic, the Most Gracious has appointed Ali as a light house, between His self and His creatures. Whoever would recognize him, he will be a believer, and whoever would not recognize him will be an unbeliever. Those who would be ignorant of him would be lost (astray). Those who would ascribe [something] with him, would be polytheists, and those who would come with his wilayāh would be admitted in paradise.

(al-Kāfi, volume 1, page 277, tradition 1173).