Trousers were soiled with flour
(By Nasser Sattary Martyr Sattary's Elder Brother)
On a holiday when the school was closed and Mansour was at home I told him. "Take the cows to the back of the garden and let them graze".
I went to the small village garden to pick some fodder to provide for the cows.
When I returned I noticed that Mansour had not yet left and his trousers were soiled with flour.
In those days money was not common and we would exchange flour or wheat for what we needed. I said, "Mansour! If you wanted to buy anything you should have wheat. Now tell me what you have bought?"
He did not answer. That time he was then a fifth grader. His school was near the house. He used to come home for lunch and go back to school. It was one or two days after he had taken some flour that, he came home for lunch but immediately went back to school. When my mother spread the tablecloth, I noticed that one loaf of bread was missing. I realized it was Mansour's act. A moment later he returned and silently sat round the tablecloth. He pretended nothing had happened.
Since the harvest was bad in our village that year, our family, too, suffered from shortage of flour and bread. However, since Mansour's act was godly, I didn't blame him. Later when we talked again I realized he had given the flour to
his other fellow classmate who, too, lived in bad conditions.