Tafsir for verse: 17:71
يَوۡمَ نَدۡعُواْ كُلَّ أُنَاسِۭ بِإِمَٰمِهِمۡۖ فَمَنۡ أُوتِيَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ يَقۡرَءُونَ كِتَٰبَهُمۡ وَلَا يُظۡلَمُونَ فَتِيلٗا ٧١ ﴿71
71(Think of) the Day when We will call every people with their books of deeds. Then the ones who will be given their book in their right hands will read their book (happily) and will not be wronged even to the measure of a fine thread.
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Commentary

And when He established - glorified and exalted is He - His power over preference in the physical life; and the spiritual life; and the preference between things in both aspects; thus His power over resurrection was confirmed; and He concluded that with the preference of mankind; and the Day of Judgment was the greatest day in which preference appears; He replaced His saying: "The day He will call you" - warning of His might on that day; and encouraging the acquisition of virtues on this day - with His saying (the Most High): "The day We will call"; meaning: with that greatness; "every people"; meaning: from among you; "with their leader"; meaning: with their guide whom they used to follow; it will be said: O followers of Noah; O followers of Abraham; O followers of Jesus; O followers of Muhammad; and they will rise; and a distinction will be made between their rightful ones; and their false ones; and it will be said: O followers of desires; O followers of the Fire; O followers of the Sun; O followers of idols; and similar to this; or it may be intended due to their deeds which we have linked them with the link of the one being led with his leader; as He (the Most High) said: "And every human We have bound his fate to his neck" [Al-Isra: 13]; and He called it a leader because they were committed to it; and they strived towards it; and we will deliver to them the books that recorded (p-478) their deeds; "So whoever is given"; from them; from the giver what; "his book in his right hand"; then they are the insightful of hearts; due to their piety and their goodness; and they are the insightful in this world; and whoever was insightful in this world; he is more insightful in the Hereafter; and on a more guided path; "So those"; meaning: the high in ranks; "will read their book"; meaning: they will renew its reading; and repeat it; rejoicing in what is in it; as is the habit of everyone who is pleased with a book; "and they will not be wronged"; by a decrease of a good deed; from any oppressor; "even to the extent of a thread"; meaning: something that is extremely small and insignificant; rather they will be increased according to the sincerity of intentions; and the purity of morals; and the goodness of deeds; and whoever is given his book in his left hand, he will not read his book; because he is blind in this abode;.

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