Which analysis of the opening lām in li-īlāfi Quraysh is best qualified?

Supplementary Practice 21: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat Quraysh and al-Māʿūn

• Attachment to fal-yaʿbudū is one known analysis, while other syntactic reconstructions exist
• Treat it universally as lām al-amr
• Treat an attachment to the preceding surah as the only possible reading
• Classify the question as simply the case ending of rabb