is the kind comprising events that come to an end, not each individual event.

The kind does not cease to exist, even though its individual instances do. As Allah Most High says:

“Indeed, this is Our provision; it will never be exhausted.”
(Sād: 54)

And He says:

“Its fruit is everlasting.”
(al-Raʿd: 35)

Thus, it is the kind that is everlasting; likewise, it is the kind that is inexhaustible, not each individual item of provision or food.

[Another quotation from al-Āmidī]

Al-Āmidī raised an objection to his own argument and answered it, saying:

“You say: ‘If none of them exists from all eternity, then they have a first instance and a beginning.’ We reply: The fact that each individual cause and effect does not exist from all eternity does not entail that the totality is not beginningless. A judgment applying to individual members need not apply to the totality. Rather, each individual member of the totality may not be beginningless, while the totality is beginningless, in the sense that its individual members succeed one another without end.”

In answer to this, he said:

“We reply: If each individual member does not exist from all eternity, and it is part of the totality, then no part of the totality exists from all eternity. If none of its parts exists from all eternity, then the totality does not exist from all eternity, for the totality cannot exist without its parts existing.”