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Al-Nisa’ 4: 5–6

(5) Do not entrust your properties – which Allah has made a means of support for you – to the weak of under- standing, but maintain and clothe them out of it, and say to them a kind word of admonition.

(6) Test the orphans until they reach the age of marriage,4 and then if you find them mature of mind hand over to them their property, and do not eat it up by either spending extravagantly or in haste, fearing that they would grow up (and claim it). If the guardian of the orphan is rich let him abstain entirely (from his ward’s property); and if he is poor, let him partake of it in a fair measure.5 When you hand over their property to them let there be witnesses on their behalf. Allah is sufficient to take account (of your deeds).

4 When such people approach their majority their mental development should be watched so as to determine to what extent they have become capable of managing their own affairs.

5 The guardian is entitled to remuneration for his services. The amount of this remuneration should be one that is deemed fair by neutral and reasonable people. Moreover, the guardian is directed that he should take a fixed and known amount by way of remuneration, that he should take it openly rather than secretly, and that he should keep an account of it.

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