Allah the Exalted said: "He said: 'I wish to marry you one of my two daughters on the condition that you hire me for eight years. If you complete ten, that is from me. I do not wish to..."

The Shaykh : .... Now he is speaking Is this a marriage contract or a promise to make a marriage contract?
The student: A promise.

The Shaykh : And it is not a contract, and on this basis, it does not serve as evidence for the permissibility of contracting marriage with an unspecified woman, because he says: And the meaning of "I will marry you" is that its root is joining and gathering, so the meaning of "I will marry you" is that a man joins his wife to himself and settles with her, and his saying: His saying: This is ambiguous; we do not know if it is the elder or the younger, which is why he says "the elder or the younger," and his saying: its root is so the nun was deleted due to the addition, which is why we say that is in the genitive case with the yaa in place of the kasrah because it is dual and the nun was deleted due to the addition, and his saying: is a demonstrative noun to specify the two daughters, so does that mean he has other daughters because the demonstrative establishes those other than them, or does it mean that Musa (peace be upon him) may not know that these two daughters are his, he might say: "I wish to marry you one of my daughters" and not know which of his daughters it is, except that she is not here, and this is the best, because specifying them with the demonstrative is so that the addressee does not imagine that he has other daughters, yes, and the meaning is not that he specifies these two to exclude the rest of the daughters, and it is strange that some exegetes said: that this is to exclude the rest of the daughters because the daughters are seven and he specified these two, so it is said: it is not so, and there is nothing in the verse indicating that, but when he said, now when I say to a person: "I wish to marry you one of my daughters," and I have two women, is it understood that she is among them? It is not understood until I say: "these two," then it is understood that these are my daughters, so... on this meaning.
meaning you hire yourself you become my hired worker in grazing my sheep for eight hijj, which is the plural of hijjah, meaning grazing for ten years so the completion is from you, meaning it is not obligatory, he informed him that he wants to marry him one of his daughters and the dowry is that he grazes the sheep for eight years, and how is it known that the intended meaning is grazing the sheep, as it could be hiring the... for building for me or plowing or something similar?
The student: From the question of the daughters.

The Shaykh : Yes, from the context of the story and the strong... the work in front of him now is grazing the sheep, so it was known by that that he meant - i.e., the man of Madyan - to hire Musa (may Allah have mercy on him) to graze the sheep for eight years, if he completes ten, it is from him, meaning the two years are a gift and the contract is for eight years.
He said: "With the condition of the ten" His saying: " With the condition of the ten" This is questionable, a clear question, because if Musa accepted the condition of the ten, would there be hardship?
The student: No.

The Shaykh : There is no hardship, otherwise we would say: that the condition of eight instead of six involves hardship, but

I do not wish to burden you

ما أريد أن أشق عليك

Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 25:660

in the case of your dealing in executing the contract, meaning its meaning is: O Musa, I will be lenient if... one day I do not see you or something similar, or if you encounter danger from money or otherwise, then I will not burden you with this, and the absence of hardship is in what? In executing the hire, but in increasing the duration, this is not a hardship... otherwise if we said that eight compared to six is a hardship, then the correct view without doubt is: I do not wish to burden you in the execution of the work. Because some people say: you have hardship in the dealing in the case of executing the contract, you find for example he does not allow him to be late, and if he gets sick he forces him, or he says: compensate me for this day, or drop... from the wage or something similar, so he says

I do not wish to put you in difficulty. You will find me

لا أريد أن أشق عليك ستجدني

[Al-Qasas 28:27]

and for this he said:

You will find me, if Allah wills, from among the righteous."

ستجدني إن شاء الله من الصالحين

[Al-Qasas 28:27]

so his promise in his saying:

You will find me

ستجدني

now or in the future?
The student: In the future.

The Shaykh : In the future, because this sin converts the present tense to the future, and it - as has passed us - signifies realization and proximity, so it has three benefits - when it enters the present tense - converting it to the future, realizing it, and bringing it near, did you understand?
And his saying:

You will find me, if Allah wills,

ستجدني إن شاء الله

[Al-Kahf 18:69]

"Whoever finds, he finds" when he attains the thing, but he said:

if Allah wills, from among the righteous."

إن شاء الله من الصالحين

[Al-Qasas 28:27]

and this indicates that the man of Madyan is a believer, because his speech indicates his faith and that he is on a religion, and his saying:

May Allah will it

إن شاء الله

is a suspension, so is it a suspension intended for its reality? The author says: " It is for seeking blessing " And what led the author to that is because his saying:

You will find me

ستجدني

is a promise from him, and a promise when suspended is not bound, so he said: " If Allah wills, for seeking blessing" so that it does not contradict the promise, but in reality it does not need it, it is not befitting that we... this news and interpret it as a real suspension by the will, because a person's determination of a thing is bound, but the execution of the thing, a person can never be certain of it, no matter what the work is So what we see is that this suspension is on its reality, not for seeking blessing, why? Because the execution of this thing is not in the hand of the man of Madyan, first: it is not in his hand, as matters may be released, and his saying: this sentence, its place in grammar is called an interjected sentence between what? Between the verb and its object, because takes two objects, the first object is the yaa, and the second object is the preposition and the genitive, and here the interjected sentence came between the verb and its object, and his saying: "Those who fulfill the covenant" yes, because the goodness of everything is according to its nature, so here the issue is a hire contract and the goodness in it is by fulfillment, and in every place according to its nature, the goodness in religion is the performance of obedience to Allah, and the goodness of food is that it is not changed by a bad smell or corruption, so the goodness in every place is according to its nature.