An-Nisa 6: Test orphans until they come to the age of marriage. If you see that they are mature, give their property back to them. Do not consume their property wastefully, fearing they will become older (and demand their wealth back). The guardian who is wealthy should be modest, and the poor should consume appropriately. When you give their property back to them, have witnesses with you. Allah is sufficient in taking account.

Until they reach the age of marriage, watch over the orphans and test them. Why test them? Is he sensible? When I give him this property, can he protect himself? Can he manage his property? Test these, it says. If you see in them a maturing of mind, give them their property at once. Give it. Do not eat up that property wastefully and hastily because they will grow up and take it back. That is, this is the orphan's property. When he grows up, I am obliged to give it to him. Well, right now he is under my, well, protection. Let me eat it, let me live as I like. Saying that, it says. Do not eat, drink and waste it like that, it says.

Yes.

Let the guardian who is rich try to be chaste. The guardian who is rich. And let the one who is poor eat according to his need and his labour. As I said a moment ago.

Let the rich guardian be chaste. That is, let him be God-fearing. Let him be a person who knows himself. Let him not cast his eye on the orphan's property, it says. But if he is in need, let him take from it in a certain way, it says. Let the poor one at that time eat according to his need and labour. According to his need and his labour. He spends his labour, yet he may not take. Let him eat as much as he needs.

When you give them their property, have witnesses with them. Allah suffices as the one who calls to account, it says. You give the orphan's property, you hand it over in full, but later that orphan may object to the guardian's part. We hear of this too. The man has given the property in full. Then that child says, he seized my property. He did not give it. Had he given it, I would not be in this state today, he says. If he made a loss, if his money ran out, he says it this way. To prevent these things, that guardian will keep two witnesses around him. Two witnesses. His father, or his (?), that is, the one responsible for him, handed over the inheritance left to him, this much. You are witnesses too.

Yes, he handed over this much. Today I hand over his inheritance to him exactly as it is. You be witnesses too. He says, it says to keep trustworthy custodians as witnesses in your dealings, right? Tomorrow, when that child slanders them, those two witnesses say, are you not ashamed? He raised you until now, looked after you, brought you up, and although he handed your property over to you in full, today you object to him; when one says this to him and the other backs him up, the orphan's guardian, without (?), everyone understands that the orphan is in the wrong and is objecting to his guardian.

But if there are no witnesses, they will trust the orphan's words and will have slandered the guardian whose property is in full order.

Let the guardian of orphans test them until they reach the age of marriage, and protect and watch over them. If a maturing of mind is seen in them, that is, when he sees that they are sensible enough to manage themselves and to put their property to work, let him give the orphan his property at once.

Let the guardians of orphans not be carried away by desire, thinking that the orphans who have property will grow up and take their property back, and saying, whatever I eat of this orphan's property is profit, let them not hastily eat up and waste the orphans' property. Are there no such people? There are: greedy people. His guardian will spend his property on him however he likes anyway. But the poor man who does not know what his responsibility is does not know that every penny of the orphan's property he spent will stick in his throat like a fishbone.

Let the guardian who is rich try to be chaste. The point of this verse: people are greedy for worldly goods. That is, they are very attached to them, to property. And they are inclined toward these created things. Their desire and craving for the world never ends. Such a rich guardian should fear Allah.

When you have such wealth, does it befit you to cast your eye on this orphan's property as well? Let them not be carried away by desire, thinking they will grow up and take their property back, and saying, whatever I eat of this orphan's property is profit, hastily eat up and waste the orphans' property, we say. Yes, let the guardian who is rich try to be chaste. The point of this verse: people are greedy for worldly goods and inclined toward these created things. Their desire and craving for the world never ends. Such a rich guardian should fear Allah. Let him behave chastely, that is, let him say, I too have property, Allah has given me as much property as I need, I am in need of no one; and let him say to his own nafs, by persuasion, I have no need of the orphan's property; if I stoop to the orphan's property and take it, I will be both humiliated among people and sinful in Allah's sight.

With a dignified and mature character, let him return the orphan's property to the orphan. Allah Almighty speaks constantly of the orphan, of the orphan.

Orphans, the wronged, the needy, those who will be in need of love. These are people whose hearts are broken and whose heads are bowed. And Allah Almighty says, seek Me in broken hearts. In broken hearts. So stroking the orphan's head, gladdening him, means winning Allah's pleasure. Since orphans are in such a wronged state, well, with their heads bowed and hearts broken, since they need love, those who show them love sincerely rise to the rank of their Lord, they rise in His sight.

And let the one who is poor live according to his need and his labour. Let the poor guardian put the orphan's property to work and, in a suitable way, without overstepping the limit, without wasting, within his needs, eat from the money it earns in return for his labour, it says.

If they give the orphans their property, have witnesses with the orphans. Later on, those who are orphans, thinking during their childhood that certain properties belong to them, and thinking that these properties were not given to them by their guardians and that their property was seized, may harbour suspicion against the one who watched over and protected them, against their guardian. Childhood (?). He thinks the man's property was left by his own father. He may well think that too. And that property belongs to the man; if it is not given to him, he may fall into such suspicions. Or, out of anger at their guardians, orphans may slander their guardians, saying he did not give my property.

So that such situations and unpleasant incidents do not arise, if you give the orphans their property, have witnesses with them, so that their hearts too may be at rest. Let neither side fall short in love and respect toward each other. Yes.

Allah suffices as the one who calls to account. O people! While living in this world, beware of doing injustice by being heedless of Allah, taking Allah's commands lightly, following the way your own nafs and Satan show you. For every soul will one day taste death, and your return will be to Allah Almighty. Let us remember that day of reckoning, the day we will be called to account by that absolute power who has no spouse and no partner. Let us be obedient to Allah's commands and pass the day of reckoning with ease. That day of reckoning.