His Extreme Humbleness

I had heard that there was an Ayatollah called Ayatollah Bahjat, who was of great spirituality.
I wanted to see him,
I searched and found his house. I went there and knocked on the door...
An old man with a short beard and in pajamas opened the door.
I asked him about Ayatollah Bahjat.
He replied, “Anything to do with him?”
I said, “I have a word with him.”
He responded, “Tell me what you’re going to tell him.”
I answered, “I should talk to him individually.”
The old man smiled and said, “Yes, it’s possible!”
I thought, “It is useless, they do not allow me to see him.”
I had to say goodbye and leave there.
On my way back, I told myself, “I’ll go to the mosque and arrange an appointment with him.”
In the evening I was sitting in the mosque and I was wondering what he would look like.
Shortly after Azan (the call to prayer), an ordinary clergyman entered the mosque and went to the prayer niche.
I told myself, “Here again I could not see him,” I was a little depressed and asked others, “Won’t Ayatollah Bahjat come?”
They showed me that very ordinary clergyman, saying, “There he is.”
For sixty years, I have been into religious sciences and knowledge of the course, and I thought I could distinguish between the real and the fake at a glance, but I could not distinguish between Ayatollah Bahjat and a servant.
During Maghrib prayers and part of Isha prayers, I was preoccupied with these thoughts when I recalled a Hadith by the Holy Prophet:
“Among people, Prophet Muhammad behaved in such a way that no stranger could identify him.”

Source: a memory shared by Ayatollah Rahmani Hamadani, quoted by Hujjatul-Islam Ali Bahjat.