ٱلنِّسَاء : ٢

  • وَءَاتُواْ And give
  • ٱلۡيَتَٰمَىٰٓ (to) the orphans
  • أَمۡوَٰلَهُمۡۖ their wealth
  • وَلَا and (do) not
  • تَتَبَدَّلُواْ exchange
  • ٱلۡخَبِيثَ the bad
  • بِٱلطَّيِّبِۖ with the good
  • وَلَا and (do) not
  • تَأۡكُلُوٓاْ consume
  • أَمۡوَٰلَهُمۡ their wealth
  • إِلَىٰٓ with
  • أَمۡوَٰلِكُمۡۚ your wealth
  • إِنَّهُۥ Indeed it
  • كَانَ is
  • حُوبٗا a sin
  • كَبِيرٗا great
And give to the orphans their properties and do not substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin.
The following was revealed regarding an orphan who demanded his property from his guardian but was refused it: Give the orphans, the under-age ones that have no father, their property, when they have reached maturity, and do not exchange the evil, the unlawful, for the good, the lawful, that is, taking the one in place of the other, as you do when you take what is good from the orphan's property, and leave him your faulty property instead; and absorb not their property, [by] adding it, into your property; surely that, the absorbing of it, is a great crime, a serious sin. When this was revealed they found it difficult to maintain guardianship over orphans, and some of them had ten or eight wives under their care, and did not treat them all equally, and so the following was revealed: