ALL IN THE FAMILY: A TALE FROM PAKISTAN

Once upon a time, all the parts of the body started complaining
about the stomach. "It's not fair," they said, "we work all day to
give the stomach food, while he does nothing but sit there and
enjoy it."
     "Well, what can we do about it?" asked the mouth, who was
 good at saying aloud what others were thinking.
"We can refuse to obey his orders for food," thought the brain,
who was good at coming up with solutions. The next day the body
parts began their strike.

              The brain refuse to think about where to look for food.
the feet refused to move toward any food. The hand refused to
 pick up anything that might be considered food. And the ears
became deaf to the stomach's rumbling request for something
to eat.
   All that day and the next, the body parts refused to help the
stomach.  At first the stomach rested patiently-only an occasional
growl of hunger. Soon though, the lack of food began to hurt:
the stomach groaned.
              "Oh, dear,"  said the ears. "The stomach sounds like
it is really suffering. But it deserve the pain for not helping to
gather  food." And so the ears ignored the stomach.
             The next morning, the stomach twisted in knots from
lack of food, the feet didn't care about that, but noticed its own
 toes cramping. The hands began to lose strength and twitch.
The eyes began to weep. The ears rang with weakness, and
even the nose started to run.
          "Oh my brothers and sisters, my partners in work, I am
worried about you," moaned the stomach. "From the food that
has come to me I have been feeding you all. I have digested the
food and converted it to nutrition for each of you. By means of
veins, the food was divided among all of you according to your
needs. But alas, now I have no food to send to you and I see that
you are all suffering."
             The the body parts saw the result of their selfishness,
and they felt very ashamed. "Please forgive us," pleaded the mouth.
 "We will not repeat such bad behavior ever again. We see that
God has given each of us something different to do, and that we
work together, we will all benefit."

                               And so the brain thought again
                                  of how to get to the food,
                              and the feet walked to where it was,
                                 and the eyes showed the hands
                                    where to pick up the food,
                              and the mouth chewed the food,
                                   and sent it to the stomach
                                      which digested the food
                                         which fed them all.

Ref: Ayat Jamilah :