its original form, but they compensated for the initial vowel by adding an alif at the end, as they did in similar cases like (alladhiyā), (dhiyāk), and (dhiyā). The meaning is: after the small and large moment whose significance is such and such, the connection was omitted to imply that the expression falls short of encompassing the description of the matter alluded to by them, and in this there is an evident magnification of its importance. End. The origin is that the Arabs say this in reference to a difficult matter that is not intended to be done, and they adhered to not mentioning a connection for them, neither verbally nor implicitly, for the reason mentioned. Thus, it becomes a riddle, and it is said: What is a relative pronoun that has neither a connection nor a return? Some of our teachers' teachers composed this in verse, saying: O grammarian of understanding and possessor of the subtleties of expression, what are two relative pronouns that are constructed and never have connections?

Al-Fanari said in the annotations of al-Muṭawwal: (firstly) is in the accusative case as an adverb meaning (before) and it is declinable, not descriptive [for it] Therefore, it takes the tanwīn even though it is originally a comparative form, as evidenced by "al-awlā" and "al-awāʾil" like "al-fuḍlā"