37. Surah As-Saffat, Verse 62
اَذٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ نُزُلاً اَمْ شَجَرَةُ الزَّقُّومِ
Athalika khayrun nuzulan am shajaratuazzaqqoom
Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum
- Progressive Muslims
Is that a better destination, or the tree of Bitterness
- Shabbir Ahmed
Is this better as a welcome or the inedible cactus (the bitter tree of harming others (17:60), (44: 43-44), (56:52))?
- Sam Gerrans
Is that better as a welcome, or the Tree of Zaqqūm?
- The Monotheist Group
Is that a better destination, or the tree of Bitterness?
- Edip-Layth
Is that a better destination, or the tree of bitterness?
- Aisha Bewley
Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum
- Rashad Khalifa
Is this a better destiny, or the tree of bitterness?
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Is this better or the tree of Zaqqum
- Sahih International
Is Paradise a better accommodation or the tree of zaqqum?
- Muhammad Asad
Is such [a paradise] the better welcome - or the [hellish] tree of deadly fruit?
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum?
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Nowþ is this honoured end affording happiness and delightful provision better or the entertainment which provides the evil fruit plucked from the obnoxious tree of zaqqum!
- Bijan Moeinian
Is the feast of Paradise [as explained before] better or eating the bitter fruit of….
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Is that (Paradise) better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqûm (a horrible tree in Hell)?
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Is that the better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqqum?
- Mustafa Khattab
Is this ˹bliss˺ a better accommodation or the tree of Zaqqûm?[1]
- Taqi Usmani
Is that (blissful Paradise) better for hospitality or the tree of zaqqūm ?
- Abdul Haleem
Is this the better welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum,
- Arthur John Arberry
Is that better as a hospitality, or the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum?
- E. Henry Palmer
Is that better as an entertainment, or the tree of Ez Zaqqum?
- Hamid S. Aziz
Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum (having bitter fruit)?
- Mahmoud Ghali
Is this a more charitable (i. e., better) hospitality, or even the Tree of Az-Zaqqûm?
- George Sale
Is this a better entertainment, or the tree of Al Zakkum?
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Is that (the Paradise), the better place (of joy) or the (evil and wicked) tree of Zaqqum (in the Pit of Hell, see 37. 64—65)?
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Does all this (state of bliss) make a better welcome than the tree of Zaqqûm (which will serve as food for the people of Gehenna)?
- Ali Quli Qarai
Is this a better hospitality, or the Zaqqūm tree?