The trust
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the trust · trust · الأمانة · al-amānah · amānah · being trusted · suspicion · treachery · الارتياب · الخيانة
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Adab al-wazīr (Arabic) · Orations (Greek)
the second is the strengthening of their hands and the putting away of suspicion from them, for the showing of suspicion disgraces them.
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
Amānah, the fidelity of an officeholder, and its breach, applied downward to agents and upward to the king.
and in this envoyship he needs to employ dread in particular, so as to hold them back from treachery and rouse them to trustworthiness.
that it belongs to the king's secrets, which must be kept hidden in breasts and guarded from disclosure, so as to join the discharge of the trust with the seeking of safety;
But if he gives word of the outcomes and turns away from mentioning the outsets, that is a falsifying of his report by his counsel, and he has not discharged the trust in his report, even if it be not so in his sincere counsel;
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The fiduciary obligation of one who handles property belonging to others, named as what the God-fearing registrar discharges and the debauched scribe betrays.
As for the man who fears God in it, and keeps the registers for upright judges, and takes charge of the affairs of orphans and of the alms and the property of endowments and colleges, and renders the trust faithfully and fears God in it — such a man is praiseworthy and is rewarded for his intention;
Orations
The condition of being publicly or privately entrusted with responsibility, examined as to whether it is truly beneficial.
and those who show themselves good men and able to guard what is entrusted to them obtain, at the moment, some honour, but not long afterward are destroyed, being envied and suspected.