2266 I have discussed various meanings of Imam 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 Imam is their revelation, their Book. A third is that the Imam is the record of deeds spoken of in the next clause. I prefer the first. 2267 Literally, by the value of a fatil. a small skin in the cleft of a date stone: this has no value.