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ecomes 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 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, and a partition that is forbidden to be passed. [Al-Qur’an 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.” 1 This partition (zone of separation) has a salinity different from both the fresh water and the salt water. 2 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 wellknown marine scientist and Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, U.S.A. DARKNESS IN DEPTHS OF OCEAN Prof. Durga Rao is a world renowned expert in the field of Marine Geology and was a professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah. He was asked to comment on the following verse: “Or (the Unbelievers’ state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, ____________________________________________________________ 1 Oceanography, Gross, p. 242. Also see Introductory Oceanography, Thurman, pp. 300-301. 2 Oceanography, Gross, p. 244 and Introductory Oceanography, Thurman, pp. 300-301.
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ecomes homogenized with the other water. In a way<br />
this barrier serves as a transitional homogenizing<br />
area f<strong>or</strong> the two waters.<br />
This phenomenon is also mentioned in the following<br />
verse of the Qur'an:<br />
“And made a separating bar<br />
between the two bodies<br />
of flowing water?”<br />
[Al-Qur’an 27:61]<br />
This phenomenon occurs in several places, including<br />
the divider between the Mediterranean <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Atlantic Ocean at Gibralter. A white bar can also be<br />
clearly seen at Cape Point, Cape Peninsula, South<br />
Africa where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian<br />
Ocean.<br />
But when the Qur’an speaks about the divider<br />
between fresh <strong>and</strong> salt water, it mentions the<br />
existence of “a f<strong>or</strong>bidding partition” with the barrier.<br />
“It is He Who has<br />
let free the two bodies<br />
of flowing water:<br />
one palatable <strong>and</strong> sweet,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the other salty <strong>and</strong> bitter;<br />
yet has He<br />
made a barrier between them,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a partition that is f<strong>or</strong>bidden<br />
to be passed.<br />
[Al-Qur’an 25:53]
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