"Pick a Word, Paint a Story #23"

Assalam o Alaikum Everyone !

Greeting to all my steemit fellows , how are you ,I hope you are all well and doing your work well under the blessings of Allah Subhan -o- ta'alla .I am also fine and thanks to Allah who gave me strength for doing my work well. Today I am here among with you as a participant of a great and knowledgeable contest which is organized by a great and honourable ma'am @senehasa.

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It is my first contribution in this contest I hope you are all liked my little effort . Today I choose a word lantern.I make a story , I wish you liked it . First I want to tell you about lantern. lantern is a source of light.It is made with a thick glass material .In ancient time ,it was a great source of light which gave light through kerocene. And people kept them like a precious thing . Now a days we saw it in many forms which are charged by electricity and batteries .

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🌸Lantern a precious thing for a widow🌸

This is a story from almost thirty years ago. In a village far from the city , a widow , known to the people as Amman Karima, lived with her disabled son . Electricity had not yet arrived in the village . Even in areas where there was electricity , there was very little that many people shared the electricity meter with each other . Only Ammaan Karima's house had the light of a lantern.

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Ammaan Karima had also applied for an electricity meter . But there was no for this poverty and no one recommendation was considering her application . But she was happy even in this situation because she had become accustomed to the lantern and she liked this lantern very much because her husband had brought this lantern from the city . She used to clean the lantern in the evening , put kerosene in it and light her house with its light . Her neighbors' houses had electricity .

One day Ammaan Karima's son asked his mother. "Amaan ! everyone's house in the village has electricity , but our house does not have electricity ." There was regret in Ammaan Karima's son's tone . His face looked even more yellow in the light of the lantern. Ammaan encouraged her son and said , that she would talk to her neighbours tomorrow and ask them for electricity . I take the meter wire for some time, so Karima dimmed the light of the lantern and started thinking about what a poor person's life is like the light of this lantern that keeps burning slowly . But she keeps the candle of hope burning.

The next morning , Amma went to her neighbours' houses and talked to them about installing a wire in the electricity meter . Her neighbors agreed after some hesitation . The next day , Amma Karima's house also had an electric bulb shining instead of the lantern light.

But Amma Karima loved her lantern very much . She cleaned the lantern thoroughly and put it in a box and placed it on the roof. The villagers were very happy with the arrival of electricity , but their happiness could not last long because the electricity load shedding started .

One day, suddenly , the electricity went out in Amma's house too. And the whole house was plunged into darkness. Since Amma used to take her lantern out of the box every day, clean it and also check its oil. She quickly lit her lantern . She took it out and lit her lamp with a matchbox . Now the light of the lantern was shining again in the house.

I hope a great steemit family you liked my story on lantern.Thank you so much to all of you for reading my post.

At the end I would like to invite my three dearest friends for participating in this amazing contest :
@hudamalik20, @ahsansharief and @gondalbiya