One of the students of Ayatollah Bahjat says the following: "During two years which I spent at his lessons, I never heard him talk about himself except on very rare occasions. One of those occasions is when he talked about the process of lauding the moral status of his mentor, Mirza Mohammad Hussai...

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"Muhammad Taqi Bahjat attracted the attention of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi through his precise comments and important queries, so much so that I remember the class went out of its normalcy once and this continued for several days. Ayatollah Bahjat did not continue to ask more questions fleeing away...

His Risalah (Book of Islamic Laws) was published seven times under no name, and he did not let his name to be written. When we insisted and he agreed, he only allowed us to write, "The servant of God, Mohammad Taqi Bahjat" of course, reluctantly. When his treatise on Hajj was published, his name was...

Ayatollah Bahjat used to teach the high Sutooh in Najaf al-Ashraf when he was attending classes of major Ayatollah such Isfahani, al-Kompani and al-Shirazi. In other words, he used to teach and study at the same time, and this was his habit even after his migration to the holy city of Qom. As regard...