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46 If The Deceased Should Leave Children Who Are Under Age

Categories: NOTES
Sources: The Kitab-i-aqdas

their share

of the inheritance must be entrusted to a reliable individual 27





The word amin, translated in this paragraph as reliable individual and

trustee, conveys in Arabic a wide range of meanings connected

principally with the idea of trustworthiness, but signifying also such

qualities as reliability, loyalty, faithfulness, uprightness, honesty, and

so forth. Used in legal parlance amin denotes, among other things, a

trustee, guarantor, custodian, guardian, and keeper.



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