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The Second Category of Trusts: Property

Allah Most High says concerning debts:

“If one of you entrusts another, let the one entrusted discharge his trust, and let him fear Allah, his Lord.”

This category includes property and debts, both private and public: returning deposits for safekeeping; returning a partner’s property or property held under an agency or profit-sharing arrangement; and returning the property of those in one’s care, such as orphans and beneficiaries of endowments, and the like. It also includes settling debts arising from purchases, repaying loans, paying women’s dowries, and paying fees for the use of property or services, and the like.

Allah Most High says:

“Indeed, mankind was created anxious: distressed when evil touches him, and withholding when good touches him—except those who pray, who are constant in their prayer, and in whose wealth there is a known right for the beggar and the deprived.”

And later in the passage:

“And those who are faithful to their trusts and pledges.”

Allah Most High also says:

“Indeed, We have sent down to you the Book in truth so that you may judge between people by what Allah has shown you. And do not plead on behalf of the treacherous.”

That is, do not argue in their defence.

The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“Return the trust to the one who entrusted you, and do not betray the one who betrayed you.”

The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, also said:

“The believer is one whom Muslims trust with their lives and wealth. The Muslim is one from whose tongue and hand Muslims are safe. The emigrant is one who abandons what