"And the record is laid open," meaning: what the angels were recording against them in the world. "And you will see the criminals," meaning: the polytheists, "fearful," that is: afraid "of what is in it, and they will say, 'Woe to us! What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?' And they will find what they did present" in their records, "and your Lord does wrong to no one."