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Muhammad Asad
Verily, [in the life to come] the tree of deadly fruit
Arthur John Arberry
Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkou
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Verily the tree of Zaqqum
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Transliteration-2
inna shajarata l-zaqūm
Word by Word (2021)
Indeed, (the) tree (of) Zaqqum
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Verily, [in the life to come] the tree of deadly fruit
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Lo! the tree of Zaqqum
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Verily the tree of Zaqqum
Mustafa Khattab 2018
Surely ˹the fruit of˺ the tree of Zaqqûm
Safi Kaskas 2025
The tree of Zaqqum
Wahiduddin Khan
Surely the fruit of the Zaqqum tree
Shakir
Surely the tree of the Zaqqum
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Truly, the tree of Zaqqum
T.B.Irving
The infernal tree
Abdul Hye
Surely, the tree of Zaqqum (very bitter taste),
Saeed Malik
Surely, the tree of Zaqqum
The Study Quran
Truly the tree of Zaqqum
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
The tree of Zaqqum.
Talal Itani (2012)
The Tree of Bitterness
Dr. Kamal Omar
Surely, the tree of Zaqqum
M. Farook Malik
shall be the food of the sinners
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Surely the Tree of Az-Zaqqum
Muhammad Sarwar
The tree of Zaqqum
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Indeed the tree of zaqqum
Shabbir Ahmed
Verily, the tree of bitter deeds
Dr. Munir Munshey
The tree of ´zaqum´
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Surely, the (evil) tree of Zaqqum
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
Indeed, the tree of zaqqum
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
Surely, the tree of Bitterness,
Abdel Haleem
The tree of Zaqqum
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Verily the tree of Zaqqum
Ahmed Ali
The tree of Zaqqum will indeed b
Aisha Bewley
The Tree of az-Zaqqum
Ali Ãœnal
(Here is) the tree of Zaqqum
Ali Quli Qara'i
Indeed the tree of Zaqqum
Hamid S. Aziz
Behold the tree of Zaqqum
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Indeed, the Zaqqum tree,
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Indeed the tree of Zaqqum
Musharraf Hussain
The tree of Zaqqum
Maududi
The tree of al-Zaqqu
Mohammad Shafi
Indeed, the Zaqqum tree
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Verily the tree of Zaqqqum (Cactus)
Rashad Khalifa
Surely, the tree of bitterness -
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
The food of the Zakkum tree
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Surely the tree of Zaqqum
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
That truly the deadly food's tree
Bijan Moeinian
The Hellish fruit of …
Faridul Haque
Indeed the tree of Zaqqum,
Sher Ali
Verily, the tree of Zaqqh
Edip Yuksel
Surely, the tree of Bitterness
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Indeed, the tree bearing thorny fruit
Amatul Rahman Omar
Verily, the (despicable) tree of Zaqqum
Hilali - Khan
Verily, the tree of Zaqqoom
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkou
George Sale
Verily the fruit of the tree of al Zakkum
Edward Henry Palmer
Verily, the Zaqqum tree
John Medows Rodwell
Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkou
N J Dawood 2014
The Zaqqūm tree
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
Indeed (Inna), the tree (Shajarata) of bitterness (Ez'Zaqquum) (37:62-66)
Fode Drame
Truly the tree of Zaqqum.
MunirMezyed2023
Surely the tree of Zaqqum
Mustaqim
For the tree of Zaqqum,
Linda "iLham" Barto
Truly, the Tree of Bitterness…
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
Indeed, the Tree of Zaqqum
Irving/Hegab
The Zaqqom (infernal) tree
Samy Mahdy
Surely the Zaqqum Tree.
Qarai
Indeed the tree of Zaqqum
Ahmed Hulusi
Indeed, the tree of Zaqqum,
Mubarakpuri
Verily, the tree of Zaqqum
A. S. Mohamed
The tree of Zaqqum
Mir Aneesuddin
Certainly the tree of Zaqqum
[Al-Muntakhab]
There and then shall the ugly, the bitter and disagreeable tree of Zaqqum or (Zaqqoom)
The Wise Quran Project
Indeed, the tree of Zaqqum,
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
Verily the tree of Zaqqum
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Surely, the tree of Bitterness
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Surely, the tree of Bitterness
OLD Word by Word
Indeed, (the) tree (of) Zaqqum
Transliteration
Inna shajarata alzzaqqoomi