A young man wrote to the Imam that "O Imam, because you love God and I love you. O Imam because you have a relationship with God we too have relationship with you." The Imam read these words and cried instead of saying that how good it is that I have a relationship with God rather he stated: "I wish I had a relationship and these words were true."[1]
[1] I wish I did have a relationship: Huajjt al-Islam Mahallati