Is Paradise a better accommodation or the tree of zaqqum?  

أَذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ نُزُلًا أَمْ شَجَرَةُ الزَّقُّومِ  

Indeed, We have made it a torment for the wrongdoers.  

إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهَا فِتْنَةً لِلظَّالِمِينَ  

Indeed, it is a tree issuing from the bottom of the Hellfire,  

إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِي أَصْلِ الْجَحِيمِ  

Its emerging fruit as if it was heads of the devils.  

طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُ رُءُوسُ الشَّيَاطِينِ  

And indeed, they will eat from it and fill with it their bellies.  

فَإِنَّهُمْ لَآكِلُونَ مِنْهَا فَمَالِئُونَ مِنْهَا الْبُطُونَ  

Then indeed, they will have after it a mixture of scalding water.  

ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِنْ حَمِيمٍ  

Then indeed, their return will be to the Hellfire.  

ثُمَّ إِنَّ مَرْجِعَهُمْ لَإِلَى الْجَحِيمِ  

Indeed they found their fathers astray.  

إِنَّهُمْ أَلْفَوْا آبَاءَهُمْ ضَالِّينَ  

So they hastened ˹to follow˺ in their footsteps.  

فَهُمْ عَلَىٰ آثَارِهِمْ يُهْرَعُونَ  

And there had already strayed before them most of the former peoples,  

وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

And We had already sent among them warners.  

وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا فِيهِمْ مُنْذِرِينَ  

Then look how was the end of those who were warned -  

فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُنْذَرِينَ  

But not the chosen servants of Allah.  

إِلَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ