In the first day of my presence in his morality and mysticism class I saw a very clerical face and interesting looking and those presented an agreement expression regarding the materials that he expressed in the class and they were related with what was going on in his self. Those days he was teaching the last verses of Quranic chapter of Hashr. I completely and clearly remember that when he was interpreting this blessed Ayah the attraction of the matters reached an excellent level having gone through a spiritual; revolution were listening to his mystic bounties. The spiritual excitement and the depth of the matters that were expressed were proving well that those that were expressed were professional and formal knowledge that unfortunately make some busy. After that date I saw a brightness regarding positive mysticism while I was studying in Najaf the noblest in Sheykh MortezaTaleghani's face, sayings and other behaviors of life having to do with him who was a great mystic and godlike sage.
(Memoirs by Hojat al-Islam Heydar Ali Jalali Khomeini)