Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | Is such [a paradise] the better welcome - or the [hellish] tree of deadly fruit |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | Is that the better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqqum | |
Shakir | | Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Is that better by way of hospitality or the Zaqqum tree | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Is this better as hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum? | |
| T.B.Irving | | Is that a better welcome or is the Infernal Tree? | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | Is this ˹bliss˺ a better accommodation or the tree of Zaqqûm? | |
| Safi Kaskas | | Is Paradise a better place to be, or the tree of Bitterness? | |
| Abdul Hye | | Is this (Paradise) a better entertainment or the tree of the Zaqqum (a horrible tree in hell)? | |
| The Study Quran | | Is this a better welcome or the tree of Zaqqum | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | Is that a better destination, or the tree of Bitternes | |
Abdel Haleem | | Is this the better welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum | |
Ahmed Ali | | Is this better or the tree of Zaqqu | |
Aisha Bewley | | Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum | |
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 | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum (having bitter fruit) | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | Is this a more charitable (i.e., better) hospitality, or even the Tree of Az-Zaqqum | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | Is this not a better reward than the tree of Zaqqu | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | Is that (blissful Paradise) better for hospitality 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)) | |
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) | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Is Paradise a better accommodation or the tree of zaqqum | |
Farook Malik | | Is this a better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | Isn´t a gracious feast (in paradise) better than the tree of ´zaqum´ | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | Is this better as a welcome or the tree of Zaqqum | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Is this a better hospitality, or the Tree of Bitterness | |
Maududi | | Is this a better hospitality or the tree of al-Zaqqum | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | Is this a better entertainment or the Zaqqum tree | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | Is that the better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqqum | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | Is this better hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum? | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | Is that a better destination, or the tree of Bitterness? | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | Is this better as hospitable reception or Zaqqum, the tree of Hell | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | Is the feast of Paradise [as explained before] better or eating the bitter fruit of… | |
| Faridul Haque | | So is this welcome better, or the tree of Zaqqum | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | Is this a better hospitality or the tree of AzZakkum | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Is this the better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Is that a better place of descent or the deadly food's tree | |
Sher Ali | | Is that better as an entertainment, of the tree of Zaqqhm? | |
Rashad Khalifa | | Is this a better destiny, or the tree of bitterness? | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Is this entertainment better or the tree of Zaqqum? (Bearing bitter, un-tasty and sour fruits). | |
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) | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Is the hospitality (of Paradise) better or the tree of Zaqqum | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | Is that (Paradise) better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqoom (a horrible tree in Hell) | |
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
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| Linda “iLHam” Barto | | Is that better hospitality than the Tree of Bitterness? | |
| Sayyid Qutb | | Is this the better welcome, or the Zaqqūm tree? | |
| 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.) | |
| Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli | | Is that the better entertainment or the Tree of Zaqq?m? | |
| Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim | | Now 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 | |
| Mir Aneesuddin | | Is this a better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum? | |
