“The trustee is an Arab and he is competent enough not to return the trust.
“The trustee is an Arab and he is competent enough not to return the trust. Whereas the one who entrusts is a wretched Khariji (enemy of Ahl ul-Bayt)?” Imam (a.s.) said, “Tell him to return the trust; because it is a divine trust that he is entrusted with.” (Meaning that it is a trust, which is to be restored according to divine command). Hazrat Imam Zayn ul-’Abidīn (a.s.) advises his Shias: “You must return the trusts when required.
By the One who has sent Muhammad (S) as a messenger with trust, even if the killer of my father Husain (a.s.) had entrusted me with the sword with which he had slain him, I would have delivered it back to him.” Satan instigates The greater the importance of a duty in Islamic law, the greater is the effect put in by Shaitan to deviate a person from fulfilling it.
Hazrat Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) says, “If a person makes good the trust in his possession, he unties a thousand knots that had tied him to Hell. So, do not be sluggish in delivering trusts. When one becomes a trustee, Iblīs orders a hundred of his assistants to follow him so that they may deviate him and suggest…