according to the measure of the people of that time, and that its rulings do not change from that nor turn to their opposites." I said: From this, it becomes clear to us that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) was the first to establish the principle of unifying weights and measures, directing Muslims to refer to the people of these two favored cities: Makkah al-Mukarramah and Madīnah al-Munawwarah. Let the rational person reflect on this and consider the current state of Muslims and their differences in their measures and weights, in various forms due to their abandonment of this noble prophetic guidance. When some officials in some Arab Muslim countries realized the harm of this difference, some suggested to them the unification of that and other things like standards, by referring to the customs of the disbelievers in these matters! Alas, we were once leaders and guides to others through our knowledge and adherence to our sharīʿah, and now we find ourselves followers and imitators! And to whom! To those who, not long ago, were imitating us and taking knowledge from us! But this night must end, and the sun must rise again, and indeed the signs of dawn have appeared, and Islamic countries have begun to rely on themselves in all aspects of their lives, after having been dependent on others, and perhaps they will proceed in this on the guidance of the Book of their Lord and the sunnah of their Prophet. And to Allāh belongs the affairs of His creation.

- "It is yours on the condition that you treat her well." Narrated by al-Ṭabarānī (1/176/1): Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Bazzār narrated to us, Zayd ibn Akhzam informed us, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd informed us from Mūsá ibn Qays from Ḥujr ibn Qays - who had witnessed the pre-Islamic era - said: ʿAlī (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) proposed to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) for Fāṭimah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā), and he said: and he mentioned it