Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 635
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE. He has made the two bodies of water flow. They will one day meet. . Between them there is a barrier now which neither can trespass in an act of defiance. ³ وَهُوَ الَّذِى مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ هَذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَهَذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ* وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَعًا وَحِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا * 25:54. And He it is Who shall merge the two seas together. . This palatable and sweet, that saltish and bitter. And between them He has (presently) placed a barrier and a massive partition. ³¹. The two verses quoted above are taken from two different Surahs of the Holy Quran. Each predicts a separate event of the joining of two different seas together. . This is exactly what happened in modern times. In the digging of the Suez Canal during 1859-1869 and that of the. Panama Canal during 1903-1914, the world has already witnessed the fulfilment of these prophecies in a manner that could not have been even vaguely visualized by man during the age of the Holy Prophetsa. . The third concurrent meaning which presents the scenario of the seas put on fire is no less bizarre than the first one, hence as unlikely to be conceived by the human mind fourteen hundred years ago. It is an idea which can only be born during the age of naval warfare with exchanges of intense firepower. Incidentally the huge number of ships involved in modern naval warfare covers such large areas of the sea as justify our interpretation that by the filling of the seas it is primarily meant that the seas would be filled with plying vessels. . Again the third concurrent meaning portraying the seas as set ablaze is an idea which belongs to the age of 595