الأُوْلَى
A word in the Arabic language will either be 1) a verb or 2) a noun or 3) a particle – الأُوْلَى is a noun
A noun may either be 1) Definite or indefinite 2) Masculine or feminine 3) Singular, dual or plural 4) Nominative, accusative or genitive
الأُوْلَى is the natural state of this definite noun and it remains الأُوْلَى even though it is in the genitive case due to: 1) a preposition that precedes it or 2) a possessed noun that precedes it or 3) it’s a noun of dependent declension a) نَعْتٌ / صِفَطٌ adjectives b) التَّوْكِيْدُ emphatic c) المَعْطُوْفٌ conjunction d) البَدَلُ synonym
The final letter in this feminine nominal pattern الأُوْلَى is a weak letter (ي) weak letters do not show their endings, their endings have to be estimated (deduced by reason)
First, Former, Prior, The first beginning.
To return, be before, come back to.
| مَعْرِفَةٌ | مُفْرَدٌ | مُؤَنَّثٌ | مَجْرُوْرٌ | أ و ل | بَاب نَصَرَ | آلَ يَآلُ | فُعْلَى | اسْمٌ | الْاِسْمُ التَّفْضِيْلُ |
| Definite | Singular | Feminine | Genitive | Root | First | ف | Pattern | Noun | Superlative noun |
| الأَعْدَادُ التَّرْتِيْبِيَّةُ | |||||||||
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| Surah/ | Below are the 6 verses in the holy Quran containing the genitive noun | الأُوْلَى |
| Verse | ||
| 20-51 | ||
| 20-133 | ||
| 28-43 | nominative | |
| 28-70 | ||
| 33-33 | n | |
| 37-59 | n | |
| 44-35 | n | |
| 44-56 | n | |
| 53-25 | n | |
| 53-50 | n | |
| 53-56 | n | |
| 56-62 | n | |
| 79-25 | so, Allah (SWT) took him with an exemplary punishment for the last and the first | فَأَخَذَهُ اللهُ نَكَالَ الآخِرَةِ وَالأُوْلَى |
| 87-18 | verily, this is in the former scriptures | إِنَّ هَذَا لَفِي الصُّحُفِ الأُولَى |
| 93-4 | And verily the hereafter is better for you than the first (prior) | وَلَلْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لَّكَ مِنَ الْأُوْلَى |