And' We have made from water every living thing'

 Allah, Most High, says:


وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ حَىٍّ ۖ أَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿۰٣﴾                    


 And We haveade from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" (Sr, Al-Anbiya 21:30)

    This Verse was understood by the earlier generations, and by people in our own time, and it will be understood by people in the future quite clearly: wateris the basis of life.
    Secienific progress has shown us many details that confirm this concept. Water is the basis of all life, and all created begins from the virus cannot be seen exept with an electronic microscope to the entire plant and animal kingdoms could not exsist without water. But the ratio of water may differ; for example, the ratio of water in the bodies of desert plants and animals is very low, and the ratio of water in the bodies of marine plants and animals very high. But water is enssential, because water is the basis  for all biological, metabic functions and chemical interactions inside sells. It is an exellent solvent and is essential for the transfer nutrients and waste to and from cell and tissues.

Ocean waves and coastal erosion

   The waves shape and eat away at the shoreline, taking from the edges of the land. Allah, the Exalted, says:

 ( أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّا نَأْتِى ٱلْأَرْضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَا ۚ)

See they not that We gradually reduce the land from its outlying borders? (Sr, Ar-Ra'd ; 13:41)

( أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّا نَأْتِى ٱلْأَرْضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَا ۚ)

See they not that We gradually reduce the land from its outlying borders? (Sr, Al-Anbiya; 21:44)

Explanation

   

   Ibn Mardaih narrated that Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pased with him, said. " The Messenger of Alloh, peace and blessing of Allah be upon him, said concerning the word 'We gradually reduce the land': 'It means the disappearance of the scholars'."

  It was narrated by 'Abd Ar-Razzaq, Ibn Abi Shaibah, Nu' aim Ibn Hammad in Al-Fitan, Ibn Jareer, Ibn Mundhir, Ibn Abi Hatim an Al-Hakim, who classed it as saheeh, that Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them, said concernig the pleace the prase "We gradually reduce the land: 'It means the death of scholar and Fuqaha' (jurists) and the disappearance of the best of its people."

  Ibn Abi Shibah and Ibn Jareer narrated from Mujahid that the phrase "We gradually reduce the land" means the death of the scholar.

  Abdu Ibn Humaid narrated that Al-Dahhak said concerning the phrase ''We gradually reduce the land": Dig they not see that We granted to Muhammad, peace and blessing of Allah be upon him, the coquest of one land after another?

  Ibn Jareer, Ibn Mundhir and Ibn Abi Hatim narrated that Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with concerning the phrase "We gradually reduce the land'': (It means) a decreas in the number of inhabitants and blessing.

  

  Ibn Jareer narrated that Mujahid said concerning the phrase "We gradually reduce the land": ( it means) its destruction.

  Sa'eed Ibn Mansoor and Ibn Mundhir narrated that Abu Malik said conserning the phrase "We gradually reduce the land": (It means) the town that was partially destroyed.

The estuary region and the characteristics of the partition

Scientists have noted the differences between the three categories of  water (river, sea and estuary) with regard to the degree salinity or freshness, and they have found that most creatures that livee in the sea, river and estuary die if they are taken out of theirown environment. That which lives in the river cannot live sea or estuary, and so on.

  Then they classfied the three environments (river, sea and estuary ) on the basis of the creatures that live in them, and they foundbthat the estuari region is regraded as a barrier that is exclusive to most of the creature that live in it, which cannot live anywhere but in an aquatic environment that has a certain leved  of salinity or freshness, and they die if  they go out of the estuary region.

  In addition to that, the estuary region is regarded as a barrier that excludes most of the creatures that live in the sea and river, because these creatures will die if thgey enter this region, which is also due to the water pressure. The wonder is that the Qur' an described the estuary region  in these terms and said "a complete partition". We can understand the world Hijr  (partition) here in the light of modern studies which show that living creatures in the estuary region live in a narrow space and are preventedfrom leaving that space.
  
  The estuary region is also described as being forbidden to othe living creatures which cannot enter it.

Barrier between two salty seas

Modern stuies have discovered that even though the seas appear to be all the same, there are several differences in their water mass. In regions where two seas meet, there is a barrier between them. This barrier separates the two seas that each sea has its own temperature, salinity and density. (asas 'Ilm Al- Bihar,asas ' Davies, p. 92-93).
    The water of the warm, saline Mediterranean Sea has a barrier where it enters the Atlantc Ocean which is colder and less dense. There are  similiar barrier between the waters of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. What modern science discovered in the last century was clearly stated in the Qur'an  Sr, Al-Rahman, where Allah, the Exalted, says:

مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ ﴿٩١﴾    
"He has letloose the two seas (the salt and freshwater) meeting together."

    The Qur'an speaks of two different salty seas meeting. The evidence for that is what was stated by the Scholars of Trafseer, which is that when the Qur'an uses the word Al-Bahr without specifying, it refers to the salty sea. Moreover, if the two seas were similiar to one another, they would be a single sea. This differentiation between them in the Qur'anic wording strongly indicates that there is a difference between them, even though both are salty.

  Another indication referred to in the Qur'an Verse is that it says of the two seas the pearl and coral come out of them. Scientists have discovered that pearl and coral can only be found in salty sea; they do not exist in freshwater or in where freshwater with the sea.

  In 1942, scientific studies of the sea revealed the existence of a water barrier that separates the two seas the meet. This is what is indicated in the verse: " Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress'' (Sr, Al-Rahman; 55:20). The idea of the barrier is reinforced in the verse: "....and has set a barrier between the two seas" (Sr, Al-Naml; 29:61). The phrase "none can transgress" means that one of the two seas cannot prevail over the other and change its characteristics. It also became clear to scientists that there is some mixing between the salty seas despite the existence of this barrier, and this is what is indicated by the Qur'an.

Starfish and Coral

 Starfish.....

Starfish

The starfih is a marine marine animal that i shaped like a star. Starfish vary in size and color and are found in all seas. The body of this creature is formed of a disk in the midle of which is an opening for the mouth, and from which stem five arms that are similar in length and size.  The upper surface is darker than the lower . In its body it has a number of solid plates from which snipes projec, on which plants and dirt often caught. Hence we fined that the bodi of this animal is equipped with small organs like tweezers with which it keeps its body clean by cicking up the things that get caught on its spines. The star fish feeds on believe molluscs which are know as shellfish. It consumes them in a remarcable manner which is itself a sign ofthe existence of Allah, Most High, and His Mercy which encompesses all of creation. Whan the starfish finds a shellfish, it places it among its arm and bends its body over it. It attaches its arms to the shell of the mollusc, then the arms pull in opposite directions until the shell opens. The sterfish is patient and tough; if it comes across a mollusc with a strong shell it keep pulling for a long time until the mollusc loses its strength and opens its shell, as if defeated by its persistence and patience.
  When the shell opens, the mollusc extends (everts) part of its stomach out throgh its mouth and encircles the mollusc, then it starts to suck the contents until it ingests them all.

      Coral....

Coral

       Coral is one of the wonders of the creation of Allah, the Exalted, which lives in the sea at depths between five and 300 metters, where the caral attaches inself  by its lower part to a rock or plant. The mouth      
opening at the top of its body is the highest part of its body, and surrounded by a number of tentcles which it uses in order to feed. When these tentacles touch any prey - which is often small creatures suchas shrimp - it is paralyzed immediately and sticks to them, then the tentacles retact to ward the mouth, drawing the prey into a narrow channel like the oesophagus in humans.

   One of the signs of the might of the Creator is that the coral multiplies in an asexual manner, by releasing spawn, and the resulting polyps remain united with the individuals that produced them, thus forming the coral "tree" which has avery thick stem, narrowing down greatly toward the branches. The coral tree is up to thirty centimeters long. The living colonies of coral come in various colors such as yellow, orange, red, pink, blue, emerald green or light gray. Red coral is the is solid core that is left after the living parts of the animal die. The stony skeletons form huge colonies or reefs. It used to be thought that these colonies were the summits of underwater volcanoes.

   Most of these colonies or reefs are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, where they sometimes rise above the surface of the water and become big enough to be colnized and inhabited by people. Or they may remain hidden beneath the suface of the water where they pose a danger to dhipping.

   One of these colonies is the chain of coral rock that is known as the Great Barrier Reef which
lies northeast of Autralia. This chain is 1,300 mils long and 50 mils wide, and it is formed of these tiny living creature!

Pearl oyster

Pearl

   The pearl oyster my be the most amazing creature in the ocean. It goes down to the depths where it remains inside a shell made of a hand subtance that protects it from danger, and it differs from other living beings in its structure and the way it lives, It is a fine net like a fishing net, wonderfully woben. It acts like a sieva which allow water, air and food to enterit, but keeps out sand and pabbles and so on, Beneath the net are the mouths of the animal, and each mouth has four lips. If a grain of sand or piece of pabble enters it, or a harmful animal enters the shell by force, the oyster hastens to excrete a viscoussubtance that cover it and then solidifies, forming a pearl. The size of pearls varies depending on the grain of sand. This is one of many thousand and millionsof types of primitve sea creatures, and Allah, the Exalted, knows best. (Allah Wal-'Ilm Al-Hadith by ' Abd Al-RazzaqNawfal).

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