Miracle of Quran - Where two salty & sweet seas meet - Between them is barrier

He released the two seas, meeting [side by side];
Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
Quran - 55 : 19 to 21

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.
Quran - 25 : 53

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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.
(Principles of Oceanography - Davis, pp. 92-93)

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 kilometers into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1,000 meters with its own warm, saline and less dense characteristics. The Mediterranean water stabilizes at this depth (Principles of Oceanography p. 93).

The Mediterranean sea water as it enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill with its own warm, saline and less dense characteristics, because of the barrier that distinguishes between them. Temperatures are in degrees Celsius (C).

Even in depths (indicated here by darker colors) up to 1,400 meters and at distances ranging from a minus -100 to +2,500 meters, we find that both bodies of water maintain their individual temperatures and salinity.
Although there are large waves, strong currents, and tides in these seas, they do not mix or transgress this barrier.

The Holy Qur'an mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress. Allah says:

{He has let free the two seas meeting to gather. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress.} (Qur'an 55 : 19-20)

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.

Allah says in the Qur'an:

{He is the one who has let free the two bodies of flowing water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition.}(Qur'an 25 : 53)

On may ask, why did the Qur'an 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." (Oceanography p. 242)

This partition (zone of separation) has a different salinity from the fresh water and from the salt water (Oceanography p. 244 and Introductory Oceanography pp. 300-301)

This information has been discovered only recently using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: the fresh water, the salt water, the partition (zone of separation).

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[djkhaled412]

@gnabeel wow your a dumbass , its talking about the sepraton of fresh and salt water

[Galathea000]

in case you haven't notice they both have salty water. There is no sweet water in there (there is no barrier either, it's just water mixing slowly). Besides, it can be seen easily with bare eyes. Really people switch off their brains when it comes to reason vs religion.

[Galathea000]

@stranger2two Well, you seem to want to believe because you want to believe, ignoring logic and evidence in the process.

"Fetal developpement is accurate" seriously ?????

About the tafsirs and the quran, i read them in arabic. And if you check out ibn kathir or tabarii, you'll notice that they explain with hadiths, meanwhile recent apologists explain according to today's knowledge, which ever is true is the interpretation, no sources whatsoever.. Just take a look at ibn kathir's 36:38.

[stranger2two]

@Galathea000 no, i ain't stretching interpretation, actually am a student of theology and up till now, i'vent found anything flawed in Islam, and.. 'reverting' to Islam is the best thing that can actually be done... you just really made up my mind, i mean, really made up my mind. Thank you much. and take cre meanwhile.

[stranger2two]

@Galathea000 haha, i had read on about that, and as a pre-med, it's the most precise! seriously. There's a book by one Dr. Maurice Bucaille, had read that aeons ago.

they even say that each single drop of the rain is carried by an angel, but still, i find it not outside logic. I mean, what if God was able to do that, what if each drop of rain was not something haphazard actually? the setting of in the mud has all been clarified, i think that you'll have to check your sources.

[stranger2two]

@stranger2two the hadith does not comprise of galaxies - only shooting stars. really, if only you could bring forth the hadith, then i can be of any help.

[stranger2two]

@Galathea000 i had these confusions as well, but the translation of the Qur'an is heavily flawed dear, i - at times -think that the translation of the Qur'an might have had brought much damage to that religion actually. But then, i knw of the hadith ye are talking on about, but i do not recall if it talks on about galaxies, i mean, i'm pretty sure that it doesn't include that. =/. let me check, and my apologies, i did not know that ye replied to me at when i had replied to ye. :P.

[Galathea000]

@stranger2two The more you stretch interpretation, the more you dig yourself into the ridicule.

If you want to believe this, you find yourself in a crossroad, between science and religion.

[Galathea000]

@stranger2two

[Galathea000]

@stranger2two Same goes for the hadith (from boukhari and muslim) that describes the fetal developpement, which is wrong from start to end, and i'd like to note the part where an angel comes at the 3rd month to give his appearence to the fetus and his sex (not by dna and sperm's type of chromosome).

Or the clouds being moved by an angel (not the wind).

Or the sun revolving around the earth and sets in mud (not rising on other parts of the world).

[Galathea000]

@stranger2two the quran is not a science book, but it's supposed to be the perfect word of the creator, yet it has huges errors when it comes to the understanding of the universe, and it makes it completly incompatible with facts and science.

About the the projectiles, it says explicitly that stars and galaxies are thrown on jinns, and according to a hadith those are the chunks of rocks that burn in the atmosphere (please compare that to the thousands of light years wide galaxies).

[stranger2two]

@Galathea000 i guess there's wikiIslam (such a poor place to know on about Islam, it really gives revulsive ideas on about the later. (sighs)), last thing, There has been no reinterpretation of the Qur'an- indulging in as such is like taking the place of the Prophet.. what i feel like is that Science does not disproves the Qur'an, it corroborates it..albeit is is not a science book. I love Islam. =).