{Indeed, the tree of Zaqqum is food for the sinner. Like molten brass, it boils in bellies, like the boiling of scalding water. [It will be commanded], "Seize him and drag him into the midst of Hell. Then pour over his head from the punishment of scalding water. Taste! Indeed, you are the [self-proclaimed] mighty, the noble."} (Ad-Dukhan: 43–49).

And what points to this meaning is also what our Master Christ said in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of (John): "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit He purifies it that it may bear more fruit. You are now pure because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so also you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine and you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one bears much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out like the branch, and he withers, and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and he is burned. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you ask what you desire and it shall be for you. In this my Father is glorified: that you bear much fruit, so you shall be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These