The Imam was extremely affectionate and kind and he was especially very fond of children. With a small child he would behave just like a child and would say: “When I go to the ‘Husayniyyahs’ (place of eulogizing and sermonizing for Imam Husayn (‘a) I often look at the children.” At times when he would see that the children were suffering because of the pressure from the crowd and the heat, he would say: “I feel extremely concerned when I see them being brought to the ‘Husayniyyahs’ under such deplorable conditions. They are harmed and are inconvenienced.” The Imam loved children of martyrs as much as his own children if I dare to say even more than his own children.
He would often look at the children: Mrs. Na‘imah Ishraqi