2935: 16647: Except Allah is a statement: 1: Tafsir al-Qurtubi: (7/4960).
: 16650: Like it: 2: Abu Dharr narrated: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, advise me." He said: "Fear Allah, and if you do an evil deed, follow it with a good deed; it will erase it." He said: I asked, "O Messenger of Allah, is 'La ilaha illa Allah' (there is no god but Allah) among the good deeds?" He said: "It is the best of the good deeds." Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat (107) and Tafsir al-Qurtubi (7/4960).
2936: 16651: My servant: 1: Husn al-Zann billah (Good expectation of Allah): (108).
2937: 16659: And an atom's weight: 1: Tafsir Ibn Kathir: (3/379).
2939: 16670: Among them: 1: Ibn Kathir said in his commentary on this verse: Meaning the Children of Israel, and they were at that time the best of the people of their era. Yet, this stubborn and persistent tyrant king subjugated them, employing them in the most menial tasks, exhausting them night and day in his affairs and the affairs of his subjects, and in addition to this, killing their sons and sparing their women, as a humiliation to them, out of contempt, and for fear that a boy might be found among them—a boy whom he and the people of his kingdom feared would be the cause of his destruction and the collapse of his state at his hands.
2940: 16673: Their women: 1: A statement regarding this was previously mentioned in "al-Baqarah" regarding His saying: "They slay your sons" (the verse). This is because the priests told him: "A child will be born among the Children of Israel at whose hands your kingdom will be destroyed," or the astrologers told him that, or he saw a vision which was interpreted as such.
2941: 16676: The land: 1: The saying of the Exalted: "And We wished to confer a favor upon those who were oppressed in the land."
