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He might indeed look back further, and call to mind the reign of those pious Safavi monarchs, who delighted to call themselves "dogs of the threshold of the Immaculate Imams," how one of those kings was induced to go on foot before the mujtahid as he rode through the maydan-i-Shah, the main square of Isfahan, as a mark of royal subservience to the favorite minister of the Hidden Imam, a minister who, as distinct from the Shah's title, styled himself "the servant of the Lord of Saintship (Imam 'Ali)."
(97:2)
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