Miracle 33: The Blessed Barley Breads

One day Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) saw one of the Ansaars eating the skin of the fruit which he had taken from the rubbish dump. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) turned away from him lest he be ashamed from him (a.s.). Later, he (a.s.) went to his house and brought him two loafs of barley bread for his breakfast and said: ‘Take from this every time you are hungry, for Allah has made the blessings to be in it’.

He tasted that and found in it, meat, and fat, and sweets, and dates, and melon, and various summer fruits. The limbs of the man shook and fell down to his face. Imam Ali (a.s.) stood him up and said: ‘What happened?’

He said, ‘I was a hypocrite, doubting in whatever Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) was saying and in whatever you were saying. Allah, the Almighty has uncovered for me from the skies and the veils and I have seen all what it is being threatened with and promised with. So, the doubt declined away from me’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 22 ↩