of pounds, to prevent the displacement of the bats." Three years ago, it happened that a small dog fell into a narrow crevice between two rocks in a village in England, and the authorities mobilized a hundred firefighters to cut through the rocks and rescue the dog! Public opinion in some countries was recently stirred when animals were used as a means to study natural phenomena, as Russia sent a dog in its rocket, and America sent a monkey.

- "Straighten your rows and align yourselves, for I see you from behind my back." It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (2/176 with the explanation of "al-Fatḥ" printed in Būlāq) and Aḥmad (3/182, 263) and al-Mukhliṣ in "al-Fawāʾid" (vol. 1/10/2) through various chains from Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, narrated to us by Anas ibn