The ruling on a five-day assignment for work that can be completed in three days

The questioner : But the other question is, for example, fifteen days, and it is completed before that.

The Shaykh : Twenty days, and they complete it in five days.

The questioner : Yes, the issue is that they set the number of days because if they set fewer days, people would not come to do this work.

The Shaykh : They say, may Allah bless you, we asked, for example, about the one who finishes in three days but it is made five days, not twenty days,

The questioner : Fifty.

The Shaykh : that if he were given a three-day assignment, he would not comply, he would not go. This is if this assignment, which was set for five days, is like a three-day assignment, like a three-day assignment, because this is the minimum for which people are assigned, for example. An assignment of five days might be, say, one thousand riyals; less than that, no one is going. So this means that the assignments have become expensive, and what the government estimated is less than what people want. There is no harm in that; he does not return it, because they say this: they say if we gave him three days, he would not go, especially if his salary is low.