There is another story of a mystic which explains a different side of this temperament. It is about the leader of the Qadiri Sufis in Baghdad, who was one of the greatest of the world's mystics. One day at the time that he was getting ready to eat his dinner a mother came to him, very vexed with the teacher. On his table was a dish of chicken. And she said, "You have given my son a vegetarian diet, and he is becoming thinner and paler every day; and here you are eating chicken." The teacher smiled and said gently, "Good lady, look here," and he took off the cover of the dish and the chicken jumped out. And he added, "The day your son can make the chicken jump out, he may eat it too."