“Wa-lā taʾkulū amwālahum ilā amwālikum”
“Do not consume their wealth together with your own.” (al-Nisāʾ 4:2, excerpt)
This command protects orphans’ property. The expression “ilā amwālikum” conveys the idea of combining their assets with one’s own in a manner that enables wrongful consumption; “maʿa” can illuminate this association.
The legal and ethical issue is misappropriation of another person’s entitlement, not a categorical ban on every lawful form of accounting or shared administration.
The prepositional gloss serves the substantive meaning: what belongs to the orphan must not be absorbed and consumed as though it were the guardian’s property.