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“He has let
free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together: Between them is a
Barrier which they do not transgress.” [Al-Qur’an Rahman 55:19-20]
In
the Arabic text the word ‘barzakh’ means a barrier or a partition. This
barrier, however, is not a physical partition. The Arabic word ‘maraja’
literally means ‘they both meet and mix with each other’. Early
commentators of the Qur’an were unable to explain the two opposite
meanings for the two bodies of water, i.e. they meet and mix, and at the
same time there is a barrier between them. 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.1 Oceanologists are now
in a better position to explain this verse. There is a slanted unseen
water barrier between the two seas through which water from one sea
passes to the other.
But when the water from one sea enters the other
sea, it loses its distinctive characteristic and becomes homogenized
with the other water. In a way this barrier serves as a transitional
homogenizing area for the two waters.
This phenomenon is also mentioned in the following verse of the Qur'an:
“And made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water?” [Al-Qur’an Naml 27:61]
This
phenomenon occurs in several places, including the divider between the
Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean at Gibralter. A white bar can also
be clearly seen at Cape Point, Cape Peninsula, South Africa where the
Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean.
But when the Qur’an speaks
about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the
existence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier.
“It is He
Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: one palatable and
sweet, and the other salty and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between
them, to be passed. [Al-Qur’an Furkan 25:53]
Modern science has
discovered that in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet,
the situation is somewhat different from that found in places where two
salt water 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.”
This partition (zone of separation) has a salinity different from both the fresh water and the salt water.
This
phenomenon occurs in several places, including Egypt, where the river
Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea. These scientific phenomena
mentioned in the Qur’an was also confirmed by Dr. William Hay, a
well-known marine scientist and Professor of Geological Sciences at the
University of Colorado, U.S.A.
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1 Principles of Oceanography, Davis, pp. 92-93.
2 Oceanography, Gross, p. 242. Also see Introductory Oceanography,
Thurman, pp. 300-301.
3 Oceanography, Gross, p. 244 and Introductory Oceanography,
Thurman, pp. 300-301.
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