Some of Imam’s sayings regarding constitutional movement come as following:
History is a lesson for us. When you read the history of constitutionalism, you see at first the Constitutional Movement proceeded, but later some hands divided the entire nation...Those despots later led it where you and we saw...(Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.18, page 143)
Whatever befell this oppressed nation in the course of history from the constitutional movement to the last appointments in tyrannical monarchy were definitely stemmed from corrupt Majlis. People didn’t not had any role in electing the deputies. The clerics were also totally forced out of arena. (Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.18, page 143)
As for this constitution the late Shaykh Fadlullāh, was adamant that it be a legitimate one, and that the laws be in line with Islam. At the time, the foreigners arranged for a court to be set up in Iran wherein the mujathid of high status was tried by a perverted individual and hanged in the presence of a crowd of people. (Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.13, page 304)
All the gentlemen have heard about the constitutional movement. A group that did not want Islam to be strong in this country and sought to push here towards Europe provided an atmosphere in which people like Āqā Shaykh Fadlullāh who was an outstanding man in Iran was hanged in public and people. ( Sahifeh-ye-Imam, Vol.18, page 205)