Bayazid Bastami

When Bayazid died, he was over seventy years old. Before he died, someone asked him his age. He said: "I am four years old. For seventy years, I was veiled. I got rid of my veils only four years ago.” 

Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9),[2] commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī (Persian: بایزید بسطامی‎‎), was a Persian[3][4] Sufi, from north-central Iran.[4][5] Known to future Sufis as Sultān-ul-Ārifīn ("King of the Gnostics"),