Hey guys. Could someone explain me why quran says salt and fresh water cant mix ? They do eventually mix and form brakish water. For ex in us there are even seas with mixed salt and freah water. Someone explain me this pls
Salaam MaryK,
I would like to share my thought regarding this salt and fresh water which is cannot mix. There's a lot things need to be considered before we can answer that question. First we collect all related verses regarding the seas and the barrier,
2553 And He is the One who merges the two seas; this is fresh and palatable and this is salty and bitter. And He made between them a barrier <barzakhan> and an inviolable enclosure.
So there's a barzakh or partition between this two waters. if you familiar with the bible story, you will recognize this phenomenon from the creation of the universe as told in Genesis below,
Genesis 1 KJV
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so.
So the firmament basically is a barrier between this two waters. One of the water or sea is located above the firmament, in other words, in the God realms.
Now lets find out more about this barrier or barzakh
2399 Until death comes to one of them, he says "My Lord, send me back."
23100 "So that I may do good in that which I have left behind." No, it is but a word he is speaking. And there is a partition <barzakh> to prevent them from going back until the Day they are all resurrected.
Not just the water,..this partition or barzakh is also separate the living and the dead people until the day of resurrection.
So what's the life beyond the barrier/barzakh looks like? I call it the land-of-the-dead-but not really-dead ;D
2154 And do not say of those who are killed in the cause of God that they are dead; no, they are alive but you do not perceive.
Those people are alive but we dont perceive. The same people who had been portrayed in Book of Revelation,
Revelation 6
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Those people lived a normal live just like us and receiving bounty from God
3169 And do not think that those who are killed in the cause of God are dead. No, they are alive at their Lord receiving a bounty.
3512 Nor are the two seas the same. One is fresh and palatable, good to drink, while the other is salty and bitter. And from each of them you eat tender meat, and you extract jewelry to wear. And you see the ships sailing through them, seeking His provisions; and perhaps you may be thankful.
Now let me tell you more about the fresh and palatable sea, taken from the apocrypha (the hidden books).
Al Quran says something about the hidden story
2146 Those to whom We have given the Book know it as they know their own children; and a group of them hides the truth while they know.
I don't know whether this is a coincident or not, but the people of the book called it "apocrypha" which means,
apocrypha (n.)
late 14c., Apocrifa, in reference to the apocryphal books of the Bible, from Late Latin apocrypha (scripta), from neuter plural of apocryphus "secret, not approved for public reading," from Greek apokryphos "hidden; obscure, hard to understand," thus "(books) of unknown authorship" (especially those included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but not originally written in Hebrew and not counted as genuine by the Jews), from apo "off, away" (see apo-) + kryptein "to hide" (see crypt).
The point is,..they had been hiding something that they dont want us to know.
Now let's get back to the fresh water, found in the one of the apocrypha book, first book of Adam and Eve
CHAP. I.
The crystal sea. God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to dwell in the Cave of Treasures.
1 ON the third day, God planted the garden in the east of the earth, on the border of the world eastward, beyond which, towards the sun-rising, one finds nothing but water, that encompasses the whole world, and reaches unto the borders of heaven.
2 And to the north of the garden there is a sea of wafer, clear and pure to the taste, like unto nothing else; so that, through the clearness thereof, one may look into the depths of the earth.
3 And when a man washes himself in it, becomes clean of the cleanness thereof, and white of its whiteness--even if he were dark.
looks familiar right? this fresh water is clear and pure to taste...located above the firmament, and separated by a wall that no one can reach unless he died in the cause of God.
I think that's all I can say for now. I might be wrong,..but this is the only thing that come in my mind while reading the two seas / water that cannot mix.
Salaam