Some clergymen would bring levies for the Imam. His attitude towards such individuals was constructive in such a manner that it caused them to lower their expectations and not to lose their self-respect while not making them to lower their dignity and humble themselves for money in front of any person. Some friends suggested that I request the Imam not to be so rigid about such problems but I did not accept because I knew that all the efforts of the Imam were directed at eliminating the spirit of sycophancy, glorification and hypocrisy and if at all it existed in some individuals, it would be wiped out with the tactic of the Imam.[1]
[1]He did not want the clergy to develop the spirit of expectations: Ayatullah Muhammadi Gilani