The zaqqum tree
A tree that springs from the root of Hell, its spathes like devils' heads, the food of the sinner, boiling in bellies like molten brass.
In the Qur'an · 12
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وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لَكَ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ أَحَاطَ بِٱلنَّاسِ ۚ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا ٱلرُّءْيَا ٱلَّتِىٓ أَرَيْنَـٰكَ إِلَّا فِتْنَةً لِّلنَّاسِ وَٱلشَّجَرَةَ ٱلْمَلْعُونَةَ فِى ٱلْقُرْءَانِ ۚ وَنُخَوِّفُهُمْ فَمَا يَزِيدُهُمْ إِلَّا طُغْيَـٰنًا كَبِيرًا
And (it was a warning) when we told thee: Lo! thy Lord encompasseth mankind, and We appointed the sight which We showed thee as an ordeal for mankind, and (likewise) the Accursed Tree in the Qur'an. We warn them, but it increaseth them in naught save gross impiety.
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أَذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ نُّزُلًا أَمْ شَجَرَةُ ٱلزَّقُّومِ
Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum?
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إِنَّا جَعَلْنَـٰهَا فِتْنَةً لِّلظَّـٰلِمِينَ
Lo! We have appointed it a torment for wrong-doers.
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إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِىٓ أَصْلِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ
Lo! it is a tree that springeth in the heart of hell.
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طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُۥ رُءُوسُ ٱلشَّيَـٰطِينِ
Its crop is as it were the heads of devils
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فَإِنَّهُمْ لَـَٔاكِلُونَ مِنْهَا فَمَالِـُٔونَ مِنْهَا ٱلْبُطُونَ
And lo! they verily must eat thereof, and fill (their) bellies therewith.
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إِنَّ شَجَرَتَ ٱلزَّقُّومِ
Lo! the tree of Zaqqum,
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طَعَامُ ٱلْأَثِيمِ
The food of the sinner!
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كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُطُونِ
Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies
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كَغَلْىِ ٱلْحَمِيمِ
As the seething of boiling water.
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لَـَٔاكِلُونَ مِن شَجَرٍ مِّن زَقُّومٍ
Ye verily will eat of a tree called Zaqqum
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لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit