Hirose UK (OP)
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August 29, 2016, 03:30:05 AM |
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Qur’ān on Seas and Rivers
Modern Science has discovered that in the places where two different seas meet, there is a barrier between them. This barrier divides the two seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity, and density.10 For example, Mediterranean sea water is warm, saline, and less dense, compared to Atlantic ocean water. When Mediterranean sea water enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill, it moves several hundred kilometres into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1000 meters with its own warm, saline, and less dense characteristics. The Mediterranean water stabilises at this depth11.
Although there are large waves, strong currents and tides in these seas, they do not mix or trans- gress this barrier. The Qur’ān mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress. God has said: “He released the two seas, meeting [side by side]; Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.” Translation of Qur’ān 55:19-20
But when the Qur’ān speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the exis- tence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier. God has said in the Qur’ān: "And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.” Translation of Qur’ān 25:53
One may ask, why did the Qur’ān mention the partition when speaking about the divider between fresh and salt water, but did not mention it when speaking about the divider between the two seas? Modern science has discovered that in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet, the situation is somewhat different from what is found in places where two seas meet. It has been discovered that what distinguishes fresh water from salt water in estuaries is a “pycnocline zone with a marked density discontinuity separating the two layers.”12 This partition (zone of separa- tion) has a different salinity from the fresh water and from the salt water.
This information has been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure tem- perature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference be- tween the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Like- wise, the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: fresh water, salt water and the partition (zone of separation).
Allahu Akbar. Wallahu a'lam.
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