Editing Milestone (section)

=== Islamic civilization ===

In Islamic civilisation, use of milestone began in the first Islamic century. The Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik bin Marwan laid the milestones along the paths that travelers used, and some were found in the city of Faiq in the Syrian Golan, which is, Faiq, one of the main road stations throughout the Islamic ages.  The function of these stones was to guide travelers and introduce them to long distances, as the separation between one and the other was one mile.  Many of these stones were found in more than one location, one in the Islamic Archeology Museum in Istanbul and another in the Jerusalem Museum. A translation of the text written on the stone currently found in the Kasserine Museum in the Golan reads as follows:

{{Quote|In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
There is no god but God alone, and there is no partner for it. Muhammad is the Messenger of God.
He ordered the making of these miles, Abdul Malik bin Marwan, Commander of the Faithful.
At the hands of a consultant, the Lord of the Faithful.
In Sha'ban from the year eighty-five, from Damascus to this stone fifty-three miles.}}