tree of Zaqqûm

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:62

أَذَٰلِكَ خَيۡرٞ نُّزُلًا أَمۡ شَجَرَةُ ٱلزَّقُّومِ ٦٢

Is Paradise a better accommodation or the tree of zaqqum?

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:63

إِنَّا جَعَلۡنَٰهَا فِتۡنَةٗ لِّلظَّٰلِمِينَ ٦٣

Indeed, We have made it a torment for the wrongdoers.

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:64

إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٞ تَخۡرُجُ فِيٓ أَصۡلِ ٱلۡجَحِيمِ ٦٤

Indeed, it is a tree issuing from the bottom of the Hellfire,

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:65

طَلۡعُهَا كَأَنَّهُۥ رُءُوسُ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينِ ٦٥

Its emerging fruit as if it was heads of the devils.

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:66

فَإِنَّهُمۡ لَأٓكِلُونَ مِنۡهَا فَمَالِـُٔونَ مِنۡهَا ٱلۡبُطُونَ ٦٦

And indeed, they will eat from it and fill with it their bellies.

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:67

ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمۡ عَلَيۡهَا لَشَوۡبٗا مِّنۡ حَمِيمٖ ٦٧

Then indeed, they will have after it a mixture of scalding water.

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:68

ثُمَّ إِنَّ مَرۡجِعَهُمۡ لَإِلَى ٱلۡجَحِيمِ ٦٨

Then indeed, their return will be to the Hellfire.

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:69

إِنَّهُمۡ أَلۡفَوۡاْ ءَابَآءَهُمۡ ضَآلِّينَ ٦٩

Indeed they found their fathers astray.

Aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:70

فَهُمۡ عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِهِمۡ يُهۡرَعُونَ ٧٠

So they hastened [to follow] in their footsteps.