As-Saffat 37:62
Those who set the Ranks · Meccan · Juz 23 · Page 448
Hospitality or Zaqqum?
أَذَٰلِكَ خَيۡرࣱ نُّزُلًا أَمۡ شَجَرَةُ ٱلزَّقُّومِ ٦٢
Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqum.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
Is that better as accommodation or the tree of zaqqum?
Insight
Elmalılı explains “nuzul” as what is offered to a guest on arrival; what is offered to the people of Paradise is only the first hospitality for newcomers.
Reflect
Do a good deed today, thinking of the hospitality of the Hereafter.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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