I had gone for the Friday Prayers in Tehran on the occasion that a bomb had been planted there. My mother who was at the Imam's house at the time became really worried as I was late returning back.
When I finally got home, she said to me, "Why did you go for the Friday prayers especially as you are pregnant? For the sake of your child you should not have gone. It was common knowledge that there would be bombings at places of prayer."
My mother had been worried for this reason.
However Imam who was sitting at the table having lunch laughed and said to me, "Are you ok? Thank God."
Then Imam whispered in my ear, "It was a very good thing you did in going. You have made me very pleased that you went to such a prayer."
(A memoir by Mrs Zahra Ashraqi - Imam's granddaughter)