Memoirs: In the company of the seminary students

In the year 1955, during the mourning ceremony was being held at the residence of the Supreme Ayatullah Borujerdi to commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Her Holiness Fatimah Zahra (‘a). I noticed the Imam sitting in the midst of average seminary students a little further away from the late Borujerdi with absolute humility and etiquette. At this ceremony the late Torbati was delivering sermon. Throughout this period when we were attending the ceremonies, we saw the Imam sitting cross legged and with absolute composure listening to the sermon right from the beginning to the end of the session. I wondered why he did not sit close to the late Borujerdi and like an ordinary listener he would sit with humility in the company of young and little-known seminary students despite being a distinguished and revered figure of the theological school.

In the company of seminary students: Muhammad Baqir Torbati