So they started with the alif in the number, as we mentioned, and the shapes of all the letters opened in it, because the origin of the shapes is the line, just as the origin of the line is the dot and the line is the alif, so the letters are composed from it and to it they are dissolved, so it is their origin. As for the verbal letters, the alif undoubtedly produces them, just as the alif appears from the letter, if it is filled with fatha, it indicates On the alif, just as if you fill the letter with a dhammah, it indicates the alif of the mile, which is the waw of the vowel, but it appears from the saturated nominative because the cause is higher than the effect. It only appears from the letter in the capacity of the extreme nominative so that it is known that even if it leans, then it is not inclined except out of an elevation of His mercy upon you, so that He may make you appear to your Creator. You see in the letter Ijad how he brought the saturated kaf to the nominative, sa