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Weigh it in front of the customer
He set the scale on the counter where the buyer could see it, not behind it. Every piece sold in this shop is still weighed in front of the person buying it, and the weight on the bill is the weight in the hand.
The Founder
Haji Ashraf Siddiqui
He opened Al-Madina Jewellers in 1985, on a single counter in Sarafa Market, Mandi Bahauddin — after years of struggle that did not look, at the time, like they were leading anywhere.
Four decades later the shop is run by the third generation of his family, from the same market. What he built was not a shopfront. It was a way of dealing with people that his sons and grandsons have not found a reason to change.
Established
1985
“The weight on the bill is the weight in your hand.”
The rule he repeated to every customer
What he left
Three rules, still running the counter
Nothing here is a policy the shop adopted later. Each one is his, and each one is still checkable by anyone who walks in.
02
Hallmark everything
Purity is not a promise to be taken on trust when it can be stamped. He would not sell a piece he could not vouch for, which meant knowing exactly what was in it.
03
Stand behind it for life
A piece bought here can be brought back here. The lifetime buy-back is not a marketing line the shop added later — it is the same undertaking he gave across the counter in 1985.
Continue
Three generations of the same standard
How a single counter in Sarafa Market became a workshop, and what has stayed exactly as he set it.