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 likewise one-third of the same, namely, two dirhems and two-ninths; this yields eight dirhems and eight-ninths, equal to thing. Observe now how much the eight dirhems and eight-ninths are of the money capital, which is twenty dirhems. You will find them to be four-ninths of the same. Take now four-ninths of the measure and also five-ninths of twenty. The value of four-ninths of the measure is twenty-two dirhems and two-ninths; and the five-ninths of the twenty are eleven dirhems and one-ninth. Thus the heirs obtain thirty-three dirhems and one-third, which is as much as two-thirds of the fifty dirhems.—God is the Most Wise!