الأمانَة

TRUSTWORTHINESS

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2- Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘There are three things regarding which Allah, the Exalted, did not allow any flexibility: returning a trust to its owner, be he good or wicked; keeping one’s pact with both the good and the wicked; and kindness to one’s parents whether they be good or wicked.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 162, no. 15]

3- Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Trustworthiness is prosperity.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 12]

4- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Do not betray a man who trusts you, even if he betrays you. And do not disclose his secrets even if he discloses yours.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 208, no. 1]

5- Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Fear Allah and return the trust to he who has entrusted it to you, for verily even if the killer of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) left a trust with me, I would return it to him.’
[Amali al-Saduq, p. 204, no. 5]

6- Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Return the trust, even to the killer of al-Íusayn b. Ali.’
[Ibid. no. 4]

7- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘An untrustworthy man is a man without faith.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 198, no. 26]

8– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who belittles
[the importance of returning] the trust such that he would spoil it when entrusted to him is not one of us.’
[Ibid. v. 75, p. 172, no. 13]

9- Luqman (AS) said, ‘O my son! Return the trust in order to save your life in this world and in the hereafter; and be trustworthy in order to be prosperous.’
[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 253, no. 1]

10- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Trustworthiness begets prosperity and betrayal begets poverty.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 114, no. 6]

11- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘When trustworthiness is fortified, truthfulness increases.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4053]

12- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘A man who trusts an untrustworthy person forfeits Allah’s warranty, because He had prohibited him from trusting such a man
[in the first place].’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 179, no. 3]

13- Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘You were not betrayed by a trustworthy man, rather you trusted a traitor.’
[al-TahdhÐb, v. 7, p. 232, no. 1013]

14- Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘It makes no difference to me to trust a traitor or a careless man.’
[al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 301, no. 4]