 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|||||
 |
||||||||||
|
____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ 1 Principles of Oceanography, Davis, pp. 92-93. 6. OCEANOLOGY BARRIER BETWEEN SWEET AND SALT WATERS "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 55:19-20] In the Arabic text the word barzakh means abarrier or a partition. This barrier, however, is not a physical partition. The Arabic word maraja literallymeans ‘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. 1Oceanologists 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 ____________________________________________________________
|
|
||||||||
 |
