The Holy Quran 4:2 — Surah An-Nisa

Arabic text

وَءَاتُوا۟ ٱلْيَتَـٰمَىٰٓ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ ۖ وَلَا تَتَبَدَّلُوا۟ ٱلْخَبِيثَ بِٱلطَّيِّبِ ۖ وَلَا تَأْكُلُوٓا۟ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ إِلَىٰٓ أَمْوَٰلِكُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ حُوبًا كَبِيرًا

Translation

Give the orphans (in your care) their wealth (when they reach the age of maturity and understanding) and do not exchange the bad for the good (do not take what is valuable from their wealth and replace it with something inferior). Do not devour their wealth (by including it) with your own. It is indeed a serious sin to do so.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Rulings on safeguarding the property of orphans: that is, concerning orphan children whose father has died, their guardian and caretaker is commanded that when they reach maturity he should hand their property over to them; that during the period of guardianship he should not take some good thing belonging to the orphans and put a bad, inferior thing into…

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