- Zaqqum
Zaqqum ( _ar. زقوم) is a tree that
Muslim s believe grows inJahannam (hell ). The Khati'un are compelled to eat Ad-Dhari, bitter fruit, to intensify their torment (Qur'an 69:36-37). The Khati'un may eat only the fruit or Ghislin (foul pus from the washing of their wounds) (Qur'an 69:36). Its fruits are shaped likedevil s' heads (Qur'an 37:62-68). According to ShaykhUmar Sulayman Al-Ashqar , a professor at theUniversity of Jordan , once the palate of the sinners is satiated, the fruit in their bellies churns like burning oil. SomeIslamic scholar s believe the fruit tears their bodies apart and releases bodily fluids. TheQur'an says:: [44.43] Surely the tree of the Zaqqum, : [44.44] Is the food of the
sin ful: [44.45] Like dregs of oil; it shall boil in (their) bellies,: [44.46] Like the boiling of hot water. [ [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/044.qmt.html Qur'an, chapter 44] . Translation of M. H. Shakir.]The name "zaqqum" has been applied to the species "
Euphorbia abyssinica " by theBeja people in easternSudan . [ [http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y9882e/y9882e11.htm Trees in the Koran and the Bible] , L. J. Musselman, "Unasylva: an international journal of forestry and forest industries", #213: Perceptions of forests (54, #2, 2003).] InJordan , it is applied to the species "Balanites aegyptiaca ". [ [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199502/the.waters.that.heal.htm The Waters That Heal] , Kirk Albrecht and Bill Lyons, "Saudi Aramco World", March/April 1995, pp. 34–39.]References
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