The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Author: Bahá’u’lláh
Source: Bahá’í World Centre, 1992 edition
Pages: 254
Page 187   
 

46. If the deceased should leave children who are under age, their share of the inheritance must be entrusted to a reliable individual # 27

 
The word “amín”, 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 “amín” denotes, among other things, a trustee, guarantor, custodian, guardian, and keeper.
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