Unwashed Fruit

Written by: Nasratullah Samim

Fawad was a boy, who was living with his family in a green village.

One day Fawad became ill and his mother took him to a clinic. Physician advised him a clinical checkup. The result showed that H. Pylori has affected his stomach but Fawad said that he had not eaten anything wrong. The doctor prescribed him some medicine and Fawad went back home.

Fawad said to his mother that eating of apple had caused him this illness.

Next day Fawad went to their garden with her sister, Zakia. Zakia picked up two apples from a tree and washed them very well. She gave one of them to Fawad but he threw it away and said that apple is harmful to health. Zakia tried to convince him about the benefits of apple but he didn’t accept.

Meanwhile, the apples in the tree were talking. They were saying that Fawad should know the benefits of apple. The apple, that Fawad had thrown away, getting bigger and bigger and came near to Fawad. Fawad and Zakia were afraid to hear the apples.

A door appeared in the apple. Fawad and Zakia were forced to enter the door. They saw many nice objects inside the apple and those objects said that they are vitamins which increase blood and keep the skin fresh. Fawad asked that why then he became sick after eating apple. suddenly, some ugly objects appeared before him. Vitamins said to Fawad that ugly objects are microbes. Most of the microbes tried to enter the apple but one of them said to attach on the peel of the apple. The microbe said that no one would see them and someone might eat the apple and he/she might get sick.

when Fawad saw this scene, he knew that the reason of his illness was eating the uncleaned apple. Fawad took the apple and wanted to peel it but the vitamins said to him that most of the vitamins are in the peel of the apple and asked them to wash the apple before eating. Fawad went to wash the apple but he and Zakia saw themselves back in their garden. Fawad picked up some apple and washed them with clean water and went home to eat them together with his family.