In Najaf some of the clergy and the people would complain to the Imam that why he was not being warm and cordial with some of his friends. For instance they would say that when two ayatollahs meet each other, they bow and become cordial with one another. The Imam would state: “I worked hard and toiled in the course of forty years so that I became a monotheist; now I should come and become a polytheist and prostrate in front of you and the gentlemen the clergy)?!”
Should I now become a polytheist? Hujjat al-Islam Furqani