Surah Nisa Ayat 5 Urdu translation

Surah Nisa Ayat 5 meaning in urdu

اور اپنے وہ مال جنہیں اللہ نے تمہارے لیے قیام زندگی کا ذریعہ بنایا ہے، نادان لوگوں کے حوالہ نہ کرو، البتہ انہیں کھانے اور پہننے کے لیے دو اور انہیں نیک ہدایت کرو

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(4:5) Do not entrust your properties - which Allah has made a means of support for you - to the weak of understanding, but maintain and clothe them out of it, and say to them a kind word of admonition. *8

And do not give the weak-minded your property, which Allah has made meaning

*8). This verse covers a very wide spectrum of meaning. It emphasizes to the community of believers that wealth is one of the main supports of human life. It should not be left, therefore, at the mercy of those who are incompetent to handle it properly. By misusing wealth such people might destroy the bases of social and economic life and wreck the moral foundations of human society. The right to private property is not so absolute; if a person is incapable of exercising this right properly and if he might cause grave social harm by wanton expenditure then his right may be forfeited. The necessities of such a person's life should always be provided for. But so far as the exercise of his proprietary rights is concerned, due restrictions should be placed on it in order that the owner is restrained from spending his resources in brazen disregard of the dictates of morality, collective welfare and economic interests of the community. According to the directive embodied in the verse, anyone who entrusts his property to someone else's care should satisfy himself that the latter is capable of making good use of it. At a higher level, it is incumbent upon an Islamic state to take over the management of the properties of those who either lack totally the capacity for good management or cause social damage by misuse. In such cases the state is responsible for providing these people with their livelihood.