Barrier between Sweet and Salty Waters | Miracles of the Quran | Subtitled

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BARRIER BETWEEN SWEET AND SALT WATERS
Consider the following Qur’aanic verses:
“He has let free the two bodies Of flowing water, Meeting together: Between them is a Barrier
Which they do not transgress.” [Al-Qur’aan 55:19-20]
In the Arabic text the word barzakh means a barrier or a partition. This barrier is not a physical
partition. The Arabic word maraja literally means ‘they both meet and mix with each other’. Early
commentators of the Qur’aan 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. 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 scientific phenomenon
mentioned in the Qur’aan was also confirmed by Dr. William Hay who is a well-known marine
scientist and Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, U.S.A.
The Qur’aan mentions this phenomenon also in the following verse:
“And made a separating bar between the two bodies Of flowing water?” [Al-Qur’aan 27:61] This
phenomenon occurs in several places, including the divider between the Mediterranean and the
Atlantic Ocean at Gibralter.
But when the Qur’aan 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’aan 25:53]
Modern science has discovered that in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and saltwater meet, the
situation is somewhat different from that 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.” This partition (zone of
separation) has 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.

A series exploring 1000s of Miracles of Quran that recent advancements has been able to decipher so far. Each of them might be possible by sheer human luck, but to get these 1000s of Miracles correctly in a single book that was not edited after it produced is truly another proof of divinity of Quran.

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