MIRACLE 40 – BREAD TURNS INTO VARIETY OF FOODS

The great scholar Hafiz Rajab Bursi narrates the below incident from Ibn Abbas in his famous book, Mashariq Anwaar al-Yaqeen Fi Asraar-e-Fazaail-e-Ameerul Momineen (a.s.).

‘A man came to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.). Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) made him his guest and hosted him. He (a.s.) prepared a bread of dry barley and presented to the guest along with a cup of water. Then he (a.s.) broke a piece of bread and put it in the water, then said to the man: ‘Take it!’

The guest removed it (from the cup of water), and it turned into a thigh of a baked bird. Then he (a.s.) cast another for him. He (a.s.) said: ‘Take it!’ He extracted it, and there it is was a piece of sweet.

The man said, ‘O my master! You placed for me a piece of dry bread and I found it to be a variety of foods!’

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘Indeed, this is apparent and that is hidden (esoteric), and by Allah our affairs are like this (strange).’’¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 29 ↩