كَيْ follows an action and tells the purpose for which it is done.
اِقْرَأِ الْقُرْآنَ كَيْ أَفْهَمَهُ
Read the Quran so that I may understand it.
The first action is reading. كَيْ أَفْهَمَهُ gives its purpose: understanding it. The first-group verb أَفْهَمَ ends in fatḥah.