Publisher's Synopsis
Allah (Glorified be He) says: "Your wealth and your children are only a trial." [Surah at-Taghabun 64:15]Allah honored you and bestowed upon you sons and daughters as a trial for you-a test, a tribulation-so that it can be observed whether or not you will take care of them, discipline them, teach them and straighten their behavior; or, will you neglect this trust or put this obligation to waste. Surely, from the attributes of the believers whose faith and salvation has been confirmed is their keeping of the Amanah (what they have been entrusted with) as Allah (The Blessed and Sublime) has said at the beginning of Surah al-Mu'minun while mentioning the attributes of those whose faith has materialized: "Successful indeed are the believers." [Surah al-Mu'minun 23:1]Then He mentioned their attributes, from which are: "Those who are faithfully true to their Amanat (plural of Amanah: all the duties which Allah has ordained, honesty, moral responsibility and trusts) and to their covenants; (8) and those who strictly guard their (five compulsory congregational) Salawat (prayers) (at their fixed stated hours). (9) These are indeed the inheritors. (10) Who shall inherit the Firdaus (Paradise). They shall dwell therein forever." [Surah al-Mu'minun 23:8-11]Being faithfully true to the Amanah: "O you who believe! Betray not Allah and His Messenger, nor betray knowingly your Amanat (things entrusted to you, and all the duties which Allah has ordained for you." [Surah al-Anfal 8:27]So neglecting the Amanah is a seriously dangerous matter, and keeping the Amanah is an attribute of the wholesome believers whose faith has been actualized along with their happiness in the life of this world and the Hereafter.
