Those Who Set The Ranks
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[37:62]
Is such [a paradise] the better welcome – or the [hellish] tree of deadly fruit?

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* v.62 : According to the lexicographers, the noun zaqqūm (which occurs, apart from the present instance, in 44:43 and in 56:52 as well) denotes any “deadly food”; hence, the expression shajarat az-zaqqūm, a symbol of hell, may be appropriately rendered as “the tree of deadly fruit” (undoubtedly identical with “the tree cursed in this Qur’ān,” mentioned in 17:60), symbolizing the fact that the otherworldly sufferings which the Qur’ān describes as “hell” are but the fruit – i.e., organic consequence – of one’s evil deeds done on earth.