On the day when they broke into Qom and hurled down the clergymen from roofs and upper stories to the ground and would beat them with sticks and stones, when the news reached the residence of the Imam, they requested him to permit them to lock the door because it was planned that after the Faydiyyah Seminary, they would break in to the residence of the Imam. The Imam stated: “No, the door of the house should remain open.” Again, they made a plea saying that it was likely that the commandos of the Shah attack the residence and demolish it. This time the Imam strongly rejected the idea. The third time when Mr. Lavasani proposed that the Imam allow him to lock the door of the house, the Imam stated to him: “Sayyid, get up and leave my house! You are telling me to lock the door while they are beating up my children, wounding them and killing them inside the seminary and I should lock the door of my house to be safe? If you ask me to do such a thing then I will collect my robe and go to the Faydiyyah Seminary with bare feet.”[1]
[1] I shall go with bare feet to the Faydiyyah Seminary: ‘Ali Ghayuri