Someone had sent a request to the Promised Messiah (as) to the effect that the Chief of his area was interested in researching the circumstances of the Promised Messiah (as), and that it might be of benefit if he might send him something in writing on this subject directly.
The Promised Messiah (as) said in response to that:
I do not like this kind of headache at all. If he is interested in an investigation of this nature, why does he not submit the request with his own hand? In fact, such people have a sort of concealed arrogance out of which they do such things. They rule over their subjects and, by acting in this way, they want to rule over God too.
They do not realize that the appointees of God, being the reflection of God, possess grandeur. They are received in the presence of God but they stay aloof from people unless someone himself initiates contact with them and then God, too, should create a passion in their heart for such a one. Paying attention to someone artificially is a kind of idol worship as well. Appointees of God also consider it idolatry to single out one specific individual [for their attention], because arrogance of the very subtlest kind is found in such people.1
1 Al-Hakam, vol. 12, no. 29, p. 2, dated 22 April 1908