The Veil of Eating Food Beyond Need!

One of the Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat's (ra) devotees related about him:

The Shaykh was once holding a session in one of his friends' houses. Before starting his talk, he felt somehow weak due to hunger and asked for some bread. The householder brought him half a loaf of bread for him to eat, and then he started the meeting. The following night he said:

"Last night I made salutations to the holy Imams (a) but I did not see them. I pleaded to find the reason. I was told intuitively: 'You had half of that food and the hunger alleviated. Why then did you eat the other half?! Having some food enough for the body's needs is all right, but extra to that would cause veil and darkness."