The Ruling on Saying “I Trust You to Do So-and-So”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a listener asks: What is the ruling on a man saying to another, “I trust you to do so-and-so,” which is equivalent to saying, “I swear by Allah, do so-and-so”? Is this permissible?
Answer:
This is not permissible. It is a corruption of the concept of trust (amanah), because one might drop the conjunction and say, “I trust that you will do so-and-so,” meaning “and trust.” The original phrase is “and trust,” but the conjunction is dropped. Therefore, this is not permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, a listener asks: What is the ruling on a man saying to another, “I trust you to do so-and-so,” which is equivalent to saying, “I swear by Allah, do so-and-so”? Is this permissible?
Answer:
This is not permissible. It is a corruption of the concept of trust (amanah), because one might drop the conjunction and say, “I trust that you will do so-and-so,” meaning “and trust.” The original phrase is “and trust,” but the conjunction is dropped. Therefore, this is not permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 13 — archive.org (1:07:53)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.