regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Settle down, you and your wife, in the Garden”
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The Shaykh : They say: The word “wife” cannot be validly treated as a coordinate with the hidden pronoun in “settle down.”
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No, it does not contradict, but they say: Because the imperative verb cannot govern an explicit noun; what is obligatory to be hidden cannot govern an explicit noun. So if it cannot govern it, it cannot be a dependent of it, so we must assume: “and let your wife settle down.”
Fine, and some of them said: There is no evidence for that, and the door of debate is open even in grammar. He said: “We adorned the eyebrows and the eyes,” meaning we beautified them, so “adorned” contains the meaning of “beautified,” and at that point there is no need to assume a verb, okay?
And likewise, he also said:
"I fed her straw and cold water": This implies the meaning of "I fed her," for water is considered food. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:249], they have now lost their argument.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No, it does not contradict, but they say: Because the imperative verb cannot govern an explicit noun; what is obligatory to be hidden cannot govern an explicit noun. So if it cannot govern it, it cannot be a dependent of it, so we must assume: “and let your wife settle down.”
Fine, and some of them said: There is no evidence for that, and the door of debate is open even in grammar. He said: “We adorned the eyebrows and the eyes,” meaning we beautified them, so “adorned” contains the meaning of “beautified,” and at that point there is no need to assume a verb, okay?
And likewise, he also said:
"I fed her straw and cold water": This implies the meaning of "I fed her," for water is considered food. Allah the Exalted said: