Verily God commands you to restore trusts. And when you judge between people that you judge with justice. Excellent is the admonition God gives you. God is ever Hearer Seer. To return trusts is to surrender intact the states of created beings to them after having watched over them so that you do not act in a corrupt manner with [people]. It is said of God سبحانه وتعالى that He has deposited trusts with you so to return the trust amāna to its rightful owner is to surrender it intact to God سبحانه secure from any breach of faith khiyāna on your part regarding it. To breach faith in the trust of the heart is to make claims with regard to it and to breach faith in the trust of your innermost self is to look to it [rather than to God]. To judge between people with justice is to treat [those] near and distant equally in giving and expending and [also] not to allow pervasive resent- ment to lead you to take revenge on any soul.
