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Sura 17
Aya 71
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يَومَ نَدعو كُلَّ أُناسٍ بِإِمامِهِم ۖ فَمَن أوتِيَ كِتابَهُ بِيَمينِهِ فَأُولٰئِكَ يَقرَءونَ كِتابَهُم وَلا يُظلَمونَ فَتيلًا

Yusuf Ali

One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imāms:1 those who are given their record in their right hand will read it (with pleasure), and they will not be dealt with unjustly in the least.2
  • I have discussed various meanings of Imām in 2:124, n, 124. What is the meaning here? The Commentators are divided. Some understand the meaning to be that each People or Group will appear with its Leader, who will bear witness to its virtues or sins: Cf. 16:84. Another view is that the Imām is their revelation, their Book. A third is that the Imām is the record of deeds spoken of in the next clause. I prefer the first.
  • Literally, by the value of a fatil. a small skin in the cleft of a date stone: this has no value.