in the way they do with declinable nouns—and that this uniformity is more marked in the dual than in the singular and plural. For in personal pronouns they distinguish the accusative and genitive pronouns from the nominative pronoun in the singular and dual, yet make no distinction in the dual. With demonstrative and relative forms, they make no distinction between the nominative and the other cases in the singular and plural; this applies all the more to the dual.

All praise belongs to Allah alone. May Allah bestow abundant blessings and peace upon our master Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.

Our shaykh, Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, discussed this question elsewhere and mentioned the following objection:

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An objection may be raised against what we wrote earlier: the form also occurs with yā’ outside the nominative, like other nouns. Allah Most High says:

“Those who disbelieve will say, ‘Our Lord, show us the two among the jinn and humankind who led us astray.’”

He did not say alladhāni adallānā (“the two who led us astray”), as might be expected from what has been said about alladhīna (“those who”): that it retains the yā’ in all three cases. Allah Most High also says in the account of Moses:

“Indeed, I wish to marry you to one of these two daughters of mine.”

He did not say hātāni (“these two”). Hātāni is grammatically dependent on ibnatayya (“my two daughters”). It may be called explanatory apposition, which resembles an adjectival qualification, as in His words:

“And to Thamūd, their brother Sālih.”

However, an adjective is a derived word, or has the sense of a derived word, whereas apposition