How thirty people ate in the dark

Sheikh Abul Hasan Antaki (RA.) lived in Raye, a city in Khorassan.One
day, it chanced that the Sheikh had more than thirty guests, while he
did not have sufficient bread with him. He could not bake more bread,
for, it was late at night. So, he broke the few loaves he had into
small pieces and spread them over a piece of cloth, which he had laid
before his guests. When they were going to start eating, theSheikh put
out the lamp.Everybody seemed to start eating and one could hear the
sound of their chewing. After a while, the sound stopped and it was
presumed that everybody had finished eating. The Sheikh then lighted
the lamp and they saw that all the pieces were lying untouched; nobody
had eaten anything. Because the food was little, everyone was thinking
about his brothers next to him and wanted themto eat instead.
Source: "Fadhail-e-Sadaqaa: Part II" translated by Prof. AbdulKarim.
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