Quran 37 : 62

Is that better (as) hospitality or (the) tree (of) Zaqqum?
أَذَٰلِكَ
Aadhaālika
خَيْرٌ
Khayrun
نُّزُلًا
Nnuzulana
أَمْ
Aam
شَجَرَةُ
Shajarahu
ٱلزَّقُّومِ
Azzaqqūmi

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Is that a better destination, or the tree of Bitterness?

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Is that the better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqqum

Wahiduddin Khan

Is that better by way of hospitality or the Zaqqum tree

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Is Paradise a better accommodation or the tree of zaqqum

The Wise Quran

Is that better as an entertainment, or the tree of Zaqqum?

The Study Quran

Is this a better welcome or the tree of Zaqqum

Talal Itani (2012)

Is this a better hospitality, or the Tree of Bitterness

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Isn’t this a better hospitality than that of the Tree of Bitterness?

T.B.Irving

Is that a better welcome or is the Infernal Tree?

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)

Sher Ali

Is that better as an entertainment, of the tree of Zaqqhm?

Shakir

Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum

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))

Samy Mahdy

Is this better hospitality, or Al-Zaqqum Tree?

Safi Kaskas

Is Paradise a better place to be, or the tree of Bitterness?

Rashad Khalifa

Is this a better destiny, or the tree of bitterness?

N J Dawood 2014

Is this not a better welcome than the Zaqqūm tree

Mustaqim

Is this a better reward or the tree of Zaqqum?

Mustafa Khattab 2018

Is this ˹bliss˺ a better accommodation or the tree of Zaqqûm?

Musharraf Hussain

Is this better hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum?

MunirMezyed2023

Is this a better hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum?

Munir Mezyed

Is this a better hospitality or the tree of ‘Zaqqum’?

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Is that (blissful Paradise) better for hospitality or the tree of zaqqum

Muhammad Sarwar

Is this not a better reward than the tree of Zaqqu

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Is this a more charitable (i.e., better) hospitality, or even the Tree of Az-Zaqqum

Muhammad Asad

Is such [a paradise] the better welcome - or the [hellish] tree of deadly fruit

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

Is that a better place of descent or the deadly food's tree

Mohammad Shafi

Is this better as hospitable reception or Zaqqum, the tree of Hell

Mir Aneesuddin

Is this a better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum?

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Is this the better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum

Maududi

Is this a better hospitality or the tree of al-Zaqqum

Linda "iLham" Barto

Is that better hospitality than the Tree of Bitterness?

John Medows Rodwell

Is this the better repast or the tree Ez-zakkoum

Irving/Hegab

Is that a better welcome or is the Infernal Tree?

Hilali - Khan

Is that (Paradise) better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqoom (a horrible tree in Hell)

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Is this a better hospitality or the tree of AzZakkum

Hamid S. Aziz

Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum (having bitter fruit)

George Sale

Is this a better entertainment, or the tree of Al Zakkum

Fode Drame

Is that better as a welcome or the tree of the evil taste.

Faridul Haque

So is this welcome better, or the tree of Zaqqum

Edward Henry Palmer

Is that better as an entertainment, or the tree of Ez Zaqqum

Dr. Munir Munshey

Isn´t a gracious feast (in paradise) better than the tree of ´zaqum´

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Is the hospitality (of Paradise) better or the tree of Zaqqum

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Is this better as hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum?

Dr. Kamal Omar

Is this better as a welcome or the tree of Zaqqum

Corpus.Quran

Is that better (as) hospitality or (the) tree (of) Zaqqum

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Is that the better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqqum

Bijan Moeinian

Is the feast of Paradise [as explained before] better or eating the bitter fruit of…

Bakhtiari Nejad

Is this a better reception or the Zaqqum tree?

Arthur John Arberry

Is that better as a hospitality, or the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum

Amatul Rahman Omar

Does all this (state of bliss) make a better welcome than the tree of Zaqqum (which will serve as food for the people of Gehenna)

Ali Ünal

Is this what is good as a welcome or the tree of Zaqqum

Ali Quli Qara'i

Is this a better hospitality, or the Zaqqum tree

Aisha Bewley

Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Is this entertainment better or the tree of Zaqqum? (Bearing bitter, un-tasty and sour fruits).

Ahmed Hulusi

Is this better, in terms of disclosure, or the Zaqqum tree (the person’s body)? (Up to here, the subject was in regards to the experience of the paradisiacal state of existence, brought into effect by the forces of the Names the person manifests through faith. After this, the subject changes, via various examples and similitudes, to the hellish state of existence produced by the belief ‘I am this body’ and the pursuit of bodily pleasures.)

Ahmed Ali

Is this better or the tree of Zaqqu

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum

Abdul Hye

Is this (Paradise) a better entertainment or the tree of the Zaqqum (a horrible tree in hell)?

Abdel Haleem

Is this the better welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum