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The zaqqum tree ( Arabic زقوم, DMG Zaqqūm ) or saqqum tree is a cursed tree that is mentioned four times in the Koran : Sura 37 , verse 62 (comparison of the grace of salvation and Zaqqūm); Sura 44 : 43/44 (sinner's food); Sura 56 : 50–52 (Food for the errant and denial on Judgment Day); Sura 17 : 60 (warning of the cursed tree in the Quran).
Although the tree is referred to as "cursed" in the Koran and its purpose is named, the tree itself and its fruits are not further described. According to traditional and hadith literature, it is said to have outgrown hellfire directly. Its sheath is said to look like the heads of satans . The damned in Jahannam (Hell) are said to have to eat forever the fruits of this tree, which are like liquid metal and burn like boiling water in the bellies of sinners (the latter as a generalization according to Sura 56:54 "... and then drink of boiling water") . The meaning of the tree finds different meanings in the Islamic tradition. It has served some Islamic scholars as a description of the ecology of Hell; an inverted fauna that is opposite to that of the janna (paradise). In contrast to that literal interpretation, the fruits are symbolically understood as the fruits of one's own evil deeds, which will be fatal for him in the hereafter.
Web links
- Zaqqūm - entry in the reference book of brillonline.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Lange: Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-30121-4 (English).
- ↑ Sarah R.'m Tyeer: The Quran and the Aesthetics of premodern Arabic Prose. Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-59875-2 . Page 82