«اِللِّي لُهْ أَوِّلْ لُهْ آخِرْ»

The saying pairs a start with a finish: anything that has come into being or been set in motion is matched by a point at which it stops. Neither half is presented as existing without the other.

As a broad observation, it treats endings as part of the nature of things rather than as exceptions. Nothing is placed outside this rule; whatever had an opening moment is understood to have a closing one as well.

Suitable whenever a speaker wants to state, as a general truth, that whatever has started cannot continue without limit and is bound to reach its close.