Explanation of the words of Ibn Malik (may Allah have mercy on him): "And the one with elevation and separation is I, he *** and you, and the branches do not get confused."

The Shaykh : Then he said: "And the one with elevation and separation is I, he *** and you, and the branches do not get confused". Do we make "the one with elevation" a predicate that is placed before the subject, or a subject? And his saying: "and I, he" is the predicate. Both options are permissible; it is permissible to say that "the one with elevation" is a predicate placed before, and "I, he, and you" is a subject placed after. It is also permissible to reverse this. The important point is that the author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in this verse the separated nominative pronouns. He mentioned the separated nominative pronouns in this verse. He said: "And the one with elevation and separation is I" for the speaker, "he" for the absent one, "you" for the one being addressed. Are these separated pronouns explicit or not explicit? Explicit means not hidden. "and the branches do not get confused". "Do not get confused" means that they are clear. The branches of "I" are "we"; this is one branch. The branches of "you" are four: "you two (masculine)," "you (plural masculine)," "you (plural feminine)." How many are these? You have four branches: "you," "you two," "you (plural masculine)," "you (plural feminine)." The branches of "he" are also four: "she," "they two," "they (masculine)," "they (feminine)." Good. If the branches of "he" are four, add them to it and you have five branches. "You" has four branches; add them to it and you have five. Five and five make ten. And the branches of "I" are "we," so they are two. Thus, the separated nominative pronouns are twelve: "I," "we," "you," "you (feminine)," "you two," "you (plural masculine)," "you (plural feminine)," "he," "she," "they two," "they (masculine)," and "they (feminine)." These are the separated nominative pronouns. Good. And these pronouns for the nominative case are sometimes borrowed for the genitive case. They are sometimes borrowed for the genitive case, so the letter kaf is added to them, and they are in the position of the genitive. You say: "I, like you." The first "I" is a nominative pronoun, and the second is in the position of the genitive, but this is by way of borrowing, not by way of originality. Likewise, the separated nominative pronouns are sometimes borrowed for the accusative case as well. You say: "I struck Zayd, and him (iyyahu)." But this latter case is less common than the former. You borrowed them for the genitive often, and for the accusative rarely. The original status of them is that they are pronouns for what? They are pronouns for the nominative case. This is the original status. Good.