Sayyid Jamāal al-Dīn Asadābādi was playing with an apple in the presence of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh. The Shāh objected to his playing with an apple before him. He replied, “The Sultān plays with [the lives of] twenty million people. Am I not allowed to play with one apple?” [In the Presence of Bahjat, vol...

Ayatollah Bahjat said:...

We regret because of having seen scholars that are very different to us (in terms of spirituality), so much so that it feels as though there is a distance of a few hundred years between us and them. ...

We must be loyal to the Shia scholars. They are our benevolent and spiritual kind fathers and they have many rights upon us. ...

One of the plans of the disbelievers is to separate sons and daughters from their parents and to separate the people from the scholars. They plan to make the people think negatively about the scholars even by having people wear the clothes of scholars and perform actions of disobedience out in the o...

    Ayatollah Meshkini, an Iranian cleric and politician, the chairman of the Iranian Assembly of Experts says: "The teachers of Ayatollah Bahjat enjoy a lofty scholarly station and a great prominence which make us look at them as we look at the stars in the sky." "The teachers of Ayatollah Bahjat e...