After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, in the foremost days when the Imam arrived in Qum, on most days a large number of people would come to Qum. The guesthouses were fully booked, the restaurants packed and there were long queues at the bakeries. In Qum there was a massive crowd. There was a frail old man who served as a domestic in the house of the Imam who was called ‘Baba’. One day the Imam told him that, “I have heard that when you join the queue for bread they say that he is the servant of the Imam and ask you to go to the front of the queue and give you any number of bread loaves that you want without standing in the queue. Don’t do this. It is not right that a person goes out from this house to buy bread without observing the queue. You too stand in the queue like the others so that it is not considered a privilege for you!”
You too stand in the queue like the others: Hujjat al-Islam Hasan Thaqafi