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tract. In numerous verses, Allah praises this quality in
Muslims:

Those who honor their trusts and their contracts.
(Surat Al-Muminun; 8)
Those who honor their trusts and contracts. (Surat
al-Ma‘arij; 32)
It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or
to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness are
those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, the
Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who, despite
their love for it, give away their wealth to their rela-
tives and to orphans and the very poor, and to trav-
elers and beggars and to set servants free, and who
perform prayer and give the alms; those who honor
their contracts when they make them, and are
steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Those
are the people who are true. They are the people
who guard against evil. (Surat al-Baqara; 177)
One should not assume a trust he is not able to fulfill. That
is because failure to honor a promise or betraying a trust are
responsibilities for which a believer will have to account in the
Hereafter:

... Fulfill your contracts. Contracts will be asked
about… (Surat al-Isra’; 34)
You who believe! Do not betray Allah and His
Messenger, and do not knowingly betray your trusts.
(Surat al-Anfal; 27)
On the other hand, an important aspect deserves mention