About the night when they arrested the Imam in Qum and took him away to Tehran, the late Haj Mustafa would quote the Imam as having stated that: "When they were taking me away, midway between Qum and Tehran the car swung off the main road. I thought that they wanted to put an end to the issue; but when I connected to my heart, I saw there it had not changed at all." Thus when in 1964 when he delivered a speech at the Greta Mosque following his release from prison, he stated: "By Allah, I have never been afraid in all my life. On that night when they were taking me away, they were overcome with fear whereas I would offer them my sympathies."[1]
[1]They were overcome with fear while I would offer them my sympathy: 'Abdu'l-'Ali Qarahi