The verse begins with: ``Give not your properties to the feeble-minded.''  Although this applies to orphans, but the expression of word is general, and aims to settle cases according to general principles of justice and fairness that is not covered by the LAW.

      Therefore, by the feeble-minded it may mean he who has not matured enough to handle his economical affairs. Here the owner's rights are limited for the good of the community, but his interest is protected and he is treated with special kindness, and is sustained, provided and clothed well.

      Islam looks with a deeper line of sight into the economical development of the community when decrees:

      Do not give the feeble-minded your properties that Allah has made a means of support for you, but feed them and clothe them and speak to them well.''

      Here the most sacred book in Islam, declares the wealth and capital as a means of support to man and his society. And so is economics one of the most important of matters to be concerned in the ideal of Islam. This is of course contrary to that which the present perverted scriptures has: ``I assure you: it will be very hard for rich people to enter the kingdom of heaven - harder than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.''   MATTEW - 19: 24

      Here a question may come to mind, that: ``If in this verse the object is the properties of the orphans, why then Allah has said (YOUR PROPERTIES) - Don't give YOUR PROPERTIES to the feeble minded.''

      To answer this we may say: Ultimately all the properties which are from God, belongs to the whole community and is intended for the support of all of us. Therefore by the pronoun `YOU' in the said phrase, the whole community and all the people might be intended - so it belongs to all, but is held in trust by a particular individual. If that individual is feeble - minded and he is not able to make a good and profitable use of the properties, he is to be put aside, but must be treated gently and with fairness.

      Here in this verse lays a good lesson, that we should not appoint weak and incapable persons upon a task only for his own benefit; having a small gain for him and a great loss for the society which is the real owner of all the properties. In other word: Give a work to a worker who knows it and will do it well.