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   The Description of the Barrier Between Two Seas   
   Oceanographers, in the wake of the scientific progress in this age, have   
   discovered the barrier between two seas. They have found that a barrier   
   separates two neighboring seas. The barrier moves between them, and it is   
   called by scientists "a front"    
   compared to the front between two armies. By virtue of this barrier each sea   
   retains its own characteristics which Allah (SWT) has assigned to it and which   
   are suitable for the organisms living in that environment.   
      
       
      
   Because of this barrier, the two neighboring seas mingle so slowly that the   
   amount of water that passes from one sea to the other acquires the   
   characteristics of the other sea while crossing the barrier which overturns   
   the waters crossing from one sea to    
   the other, keeping each sea with its own characteristics.   
      
   The gradual progress of human knowledge about the fact of the differences   
   between seawater masses and the existence of barriers between them :   
      
   Oceanographers discovered that there were certain differences between water   
   samples taken from various seas in 1284 AH/1873 AD, by the British Marine   
   Scientific Expedition of the Challenger Voyage. It was discovered that masses   
   of sea water vary in their    
   composition, in respect of salinity, water temperature, density and types of   
   marine organisms. The data were obtained from 362 oceanographic stations. The   
   report of the expedition filled 29,500 pages in 50 volumes and took 23 years   
   to complete. One of    
   the great achievements of scientific exploration, the expedition also showed   
   how little man knew about the sea.   
      
   After 1933 AD another American expedition set out in the Mexican Gulf and   
   installed hundreds of sea stations to study the characteristics of seas. It   
   found out that a large number of stations in a certain area gave similar   
   information about the    
   characteristics of the water in that area, whether in respect of salinity,   
   density, temperature, marine organisms or solubility of oxygen in water, while   
   another group of stations in another area gave a different set of data about   
   that area. So,    
   oceanographers concluded that there were two distinctive seas with different   
   characteristics, and not just limited samples as the Expedition of Challenger   
   showed.   
      
   Man installed hundreds of marine stations to study the characteristics of   
   various seas. Scientists have found out that the differences in these   
   characteristics distinguished one sea from another. But why do these seas not   
   mix and become homogeneous in    
   spite of the effect of tide and ebb that moves sea water twice a day, and   
   causes seas to move forward and backward turbulently, besides other factors   
   that cause sea water to be in continuous movement and turbulence, such as   
   surface and internal waves and    
   sea currents?   
      
   The answer appeared for the first time in scientific books in 1361 AH/1942 AD.   
   Extensive studies of marine characteristics revealed that there are water   
   barriers separating neighboring seas and maintaining the distinctive   
   properties of each sea with    
   respect to density, salinity, marine life, temperature and solubility of   
   oxygen in water.   
      
      
      
   There are large waves, strong currents, and tides in the Mediterranean Sea and   
   the Atlantic Ocean. Mediterranean Sea water enters the Atlantic by Gibraltar.   
   But their temperature, salinity, and densities do not change, because of the   
   barrier that    
   separates them.   
      
   After 1962 AD there was known the role of sea barriers in modifying the   
   properties of the water masses that pass from one sea to another, to prevent   
   one sea from overwhelming the other. So salty seas retain their own properties   
   and boundaries by virtue    
   of these barriers.   
      
   A field study comparing the waters of Oman Gulf and those of the Arabian Gulf   
   has shown the difference between them regarding their chemical properties, the   
   prevalent vegetation and the barrier separating them.   
      
   About a hundred years of research and study has been required to discover the   
   fact of the existence of barriers between sea water masses and their role in   
   making each sea retain its own properties. Hundred of researchers took part   
   and numerous precise    
   scientific instruments and equipment were used to achieve that.   
      
   Fourteen centuries ago the Holy Qur'an revealed this fact.   
      
   Allah (SWT) says: (He has let free (MARAJA) the two sees meeting together.   
   Between them is a barrier that they do not transgress. Then which of the   
   Blessings of your Lord will you both (Jinn and men) deny? Out of them both   
   come out pearls and carol." (LV:   
    19-22) Allah (SWT) also says: "And He made a barrier between the two   
   seas.)(XXVII: 61)   
      
   Linguistic meanings and the commentators' sayings:   
      
   Maraja (let free):   
      
   Ibn Faris said: "'maraja': The consonants m, r and j form a root indicating a   
   movement of going and coming and turbulence."   
      
   Al-Bahrayn (the two seas):   
      
   Al-Asfahani said: "Some say that the word "bahr" (sea) is usually used to mean   
   salt water rather than fresh water."   
      
   Ibn Manzursaid: "'Bahr' is more frequently used to describe salt water than   
   fresh water."   
      
   If the word "bahr" is used without qualification it means salt water;   
   otherwise, it means the thing qualified." The Holy Qur'an uses "nahr" (river)   
   to indicate abundant running fresh water, while it uses "bahr" (sea) to   
   indicate salt water. Allah (SWT)    
   says: (And He has made the ships to be of    
      
   service to you that they may sail through the sea by His Command; and He has   
   made rivers (also) to be of service to you.)(XIV: 32)   
   In the hadith, "bahr" (sea) is also used to mean salt water. Allah's Messenger   
   (Peace be upon him) was asked by a man who said: "O Allah's Messenger! We   
   travel by sea and carry with us a little fresh water. If we should use it   
   forwudu (ablution) we would    
   get thirsty. May we use seawater for wudu? Allah' Messenger (Peace be upon   
   him) said:"Its water is pure and its dead (animals) are lawful (to eat)."    
      
   Al-Barzakh: It is the barrier. Most commentatorssuggest that it is invisible.   
      
   Al-baghi: Ibn Manzur said: "'Al-Baghi' means transgression, exceeding the   
   limits."   
      
   Al-Jawhari and Al-Asfahani said the same.   
      
      
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