Layers of darkness of the deep sea

  Most of the seas and oceans are covered with thick culumus clouds that block a great proportion of sunlight, as is sown by most satellite pictures. these clouds reflect back a lot of the sun's rays and keep out a lot of its light. Of the light that remainis, the ater reflect back a great deal of it, and absorbs the rest, so that the light decreases the deeper you go in the water. In his book Marines Optict, Gerloff says that the level of light in the water of the ocean is reducedat a depth of 35 metters to ten percent of its level at the surface, and to 1 percent  at a depth of 85 metetes, and to 0,1 percent at a depth of 135 metters, and to 0,01 percent at a depth 190 metters. After a depth of 1,000 metters the darkness grows so deep that there is virtually  no visibiliti and if a man stretches out his hand, he would not be able to se it.

  These astonishing scientific facts are mentioned in the Holy Qur'an which came down to Arabs in the desrts who did not  know how to swim or sail in the sea an oceans. In the fortieth Verse of  Al-Noor, Allah Most High, says:

أَوْ كَظُلُمَٰتٍۢ فِى بَحْرٍۢ لُّجِّىٍّۢ يَغْشَىٰهُ مَوْجٌۭ مِّن فَوْقِهِۦ مَوْجٌۭ مِّن فَوْقِهِۦ سَحَابٌۭ ۚ ظُلُمَٰتٌۢ بَعْضُهَا فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ 
إِذَآ أَخْرَجَ يَدَهُۥ لَمْ يَكَدْ يَرَىٰهَا ۗ وَمَن لَّمْ يَجْعَلِ ٱللَّهُ لَهُۥ نُورًۭا فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن نُّورٍ

"Or the (state of a disbeliever) is like the darkness in a vast deep sea, overwhelmed with waves topped by waves, topped by dark clouds, (layer of) darkness upon darkness: if a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it! And he for whom Allah has not appointed light, for him there ia no light."

  This Verse is in accordance with these facts, as they affirm that the deepsea is mostly covered by clouds. Tte word "like the darknes" indicates that there is no vision, and that is also supported by the word "in the vast deef sea (fi bahrin lujjiy)". Lujjiy refert to that which  is very dark and very deep. The fish at that depth have no eyes; rather they are uquipped with bioluminescence, as montioned in the Encyclopaedia Britanica. This what is mean when Allah,  the Almighty, says: '' And he for whom Allah hes notappointed light, for him there is no light." These fish are able to find their way by means of light-producimg fleshy growts that Allah, the Exalted, has created in their bodies. The sea floor slopes and change colour gradually, fading to blue before dissappearig altogether as the depth increases. As the light spectrum decreases as the depth increases, new type of darkness develop which prevent seeing some colour of the spectrum.

     Hence, Allah, the Exalted, says ''Zulumaat"  (usually translated as"darkness" although it is a plural form, e.i., darkness), and He did not say "Zulmah" (singular). He said: " (layer of) darkness upon darkness" (lit. darknesses one above another).

 Dr. Williams Hay notedthat fisherman are able to use the differences in the color of water to determine the depth with remarcable precision. As mentioned earlier, nowadays the simplest scientific tool that is used to measure  the depth to which light penetrates the ocean waters Secchi disk, which it becomes imposible to see it, which is taken as a set point.

The Power of the Sea

وَإِذَا مَسَّكُمُ ٱلضُّرُّ فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ ضَلَّ مَن تَدْعُونَ إِلَّآ إِيَّاهُ ۖ فَلَمَّا نَجَّىٰكُمْ إِلَى ٱلْبَرِّ أَعْرَضْتُمْ ۚ وَكَانَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ 

 كَفُورًا ﴿٧٦﴾

" And when harm touches you upon the sea, those that you call upon vanish fom you except Him (Allah, Alone). But when He bring you safe to land you turn away (from Him). And man is ever unggrateful." 

(Sr, Al-Isra;17:67)

The water that fills the ocean and seas, lakes and rivers, atreams and channel, all comes from one source: with atoms of oxygen, which together form water.

  It flow constantly, never changing, bringing life. but does water always brind life? No. Sometimes water is the strongest and harshest force on earth; it sweeps away everything that stand in its path no matter what it is. It causes disaster and floods in which rocka and solid objects are distroyed. Hence, we see in the ocean such beauty and depth, such awe-inspiring force that could be a cause for potential danger and fear.

   Pheraps the most amazing phenomenon occuring at sea are the storm and hurricanes which last for  three or four days, nonstop, with waves as high as mountains and throughs as deep as valleys, with waves seemingly reaching up to the sky with no land or horizon to be seen.

   Waves which are usually 25 feet high may reach a height of 130 feet during the storm. If you realize that a foot-high wave has a destructive force of six thousand pound, you can imazine the exent of the destruction that can be wrought by these waves.

    According to recoads, in 1872 a strong wave in Scotland dislodged an iron anchor weighing 1,700,000 lbs, and another wave carried a rock weighing 175 thousand pound to a height of 100 feet! In 1737, in port of Babjok there was a storm which killed 300,000 people and wrecked 20,000 ships.

   

( أَوْ كَظُلُمَٰتٍۢ فِى بَحْرٍۢ لُّجِّىٍّۢ يَغْشَىٰهُ مَوْجٌۭ مِّن فَوْقِهِۦ مَوْجٌۭ مِّن فَوْقِهِۦ سَحَابٌۭ ۚ ظُلُمَٰتٌۢ بَعْضُهَا فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ إِذَآ أَخْرَجَ يَدَهُۥ لَمْ يَكَدْ يَرَىٰهَا ۗ وَمَن لَّمْ يَجْعَلِ ٱللَّهُ لَهُۥ نُورًۭا فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن نُّورٍ ﴿۰٤﴾ أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُۥ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱلطَّيْرُ صَٰٓفَّٰتٍۢ ۖ كُلٌّۭ قَدْ عَلِمَ صَلَاتَهُۥ وَتَسْبِيحَهُۥ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا يَفْعَلُونَ )

"O (the state of a disbeliever) is like the darkness. In a vast deep sea, overwhelmed with waves topped by waves, topped by dark clouds, (layers of) darkness upon darkness: if a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it! And he for whom Allah has not appointed light, for him there is no light."
( Sr, Al-Noor; 24:40)

Then suddendly the sky clears, the wind drops and the sea becomes calm. In the face of these natural forces, man in his weekness can do nothing but invoke the prises of Allah, the Almighty, may He be Exalted.
 

بَدِيعُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰٓ أَمْرًۭا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ ﴿٧١١﴾

  "The Originator of the heavens and the Earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it : Be! - and it is." (Sr, Al-Baqarah; 2:117)

Composition of Water

Water consists of particles that are firmly attached to one another .A molecule of water consists of one atom of oxygen attached to Two atoms of hydrogen. The atoms joined by chemical bond which ar forces of attraction tha hold atom together. It is the bond between atoms that give molecules different properties than the atom they are composed of. The oxygen-hydrogen bond is pola one end of molecule is partially negative whilst the two hydrogen atom become positive.

The molecules of water are attracted to one another, with the slightly posive hidrogen atoms attracted to the negative ''ends"  (oxygen atoms), of water molecules. The intermoleculer attraction is termed  "hydrogen bonding"  In the case of water the effect on the physical properties of water are quite astounding, the boiling,  pont of water, for example, is very much greater than would be the case if such bonding did not exist. Thus fact alone should make human beings and other living creatures grateful for unique physical and chemical and chemical properties of water.

Original of  Water 

  Ther  are number of theories which explain the origin of water on Eart. These theories include the following.

• Water is of extraterrestrial origin                     

        

     

   In brief, this theory says that water come to Earth from mouter space: there are rays which flow continuously throughout the universe, consisting of particles that are endowed with great energy and containing nuclei of hydrogen atoms, i.e. protons. As the Earth  rotated on its axis and around the sun these protons penetrated Earth's atmosphere and acquired the necessary electrons, thus forming hydrogen atoms which intracted directly with oxygen and formed molecules at a high altitude under verylow temperatures. These condensed into particles of space dust, forming silver clouds. Scientists also believe that the water which was formed in this way during the long period of the Earth's formation was sufficient to fill all the oceans on Earth.

  In the Holy Qur'an, Allah , The Exalted, mentions this phenomenon, as He says that He sent down water from heavens. He mentions water without a difinite article so as to indicate that water in general come down from heavens. This appears in more than twenty Verses, including the following:

ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فِرَٰشًۭا وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بِنَآءًۭ وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ رِزْقًۭا لَّكُمْ ۖ 

 فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ لِلَّهِ أَندَادًۭا وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٢٢﴾ 

"Who has made the Earth a resting place for you, and the sky as a canopy, and sent down water (rain) from the sky and brought  fort therewith fruits as a provision for you. then do not set up rivals unto Allah (in worship) while you know (that He Alone has the right to be worshipped).''(Sr, Al-Baqarah, 2:22)

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ فَأَخْرَجْنَا بِهِۦ نَبَاتَ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ فَأَخْرَجْنَا مِنْهُ خَضِرًۭا نُّخْرِجُ مِنْهُ حَبًّۭا مُّتَرَاكِبًۭا وَمِنَ ٱلنَّخْلِ مِن طَلْعِهَا قِنْوَانٌۭ دَانِيَةٌۭ وَجَنَّٰتٍۢ مِّنْ أَعْنَابٍۢ وَٱلزَّيْتُونَ وَٱلرُّمَّانَ مُشْتَبِهًۭا وَغَيْرَ مُتَشَٰبِهٍ ۗ ٱنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ ثَمَرِهِۦٓ إِذَآ أَثْمَرَ وَيَنْعِهِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكُمْ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿٩٩﴾

"IT is He  Who sends down water (rain) from the sky, and with it We bring fort vegetation of all kinds, and out of it We bring foeth green stalk, from thick clustered grain. And out of the date-palm and its sphate come forth clusters of dates hanging low and near, and gardens of grapes, olives and pomegranates, each similar (in kind) yet different (in variety and state) Look at their fruits when they begin to bear, and the ripeness thereof. Verilly, in these things there are Sings fo people who believe." (Sr, Al An'am; 6:99)

إِذْ يُغَشِّيكُمُ ٱلنُّعَاسَ أَمَنَةًۭ مِّنْهُ وَيُنَزِّلُ عَلَيْكُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ لِّيُطَهِّرَكُم بِهِۦ وَيُذْهِبَ عَنكُمْ رِجْزَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ وَلِيَرْبِطَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتَ بِهِ ٱلْأَقْدَامَ ﴿١١﴾

''(Remember) when He covered you with a slumber as a security from Him, and He caused water (rain) to descend on you from the sky, to clea you thereby and to remove from  you the Rijz (whiphering, evil suggestion of Shaitan (Satan), andto strengthen your hearts, and make your feet firm thereby."

Sr, Al-Anfal; 8:11)

أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ فَسَالَتْ أَوْدِيَةٌۢ بِقَدَرِهَا فَٱحْتَمَلَ ٱلسَّيْلُ زَبَدًۭا رَّابِيًۭا ۚ وَمِمَّا يُوقِدُونَ عَلَيْهِ فِى ٱلنَّارِ ٱبْتِغَآءَ حِلْيَةٍ أَوْ مَتَٰعٍۢ زَبَدٌۭ مِّثْلُهُۥ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَضْرِبُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْحَقَّ وَٱلْبَٰطِلَ ۚ فَأَمَّا ٱلزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفَآءًۭ ۖ وَأَمَّا مَا يَنفَعُ ٱلنَّاسَ فَيَمْكُثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَضْرِبُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْأَمْثَالَ ﴿٧١﴾

"He send down water (rain) from the sky, and the valleys flow according to their measure, but the flood bear away the foam that mounts up to the surface - and (also) from that (ore) which they heat in the fire in order to make ornaments or utensils, rises a foam like unto it, thus does Allah  (by parables) show forth truth and falsehood. Then, as for the foam it passes away as scum upon the banks, while that which is for the good of mankind remain in the earth. Thus Allah sets forth parables ( for the truth and fasehood, i.e. belief and disbelief),'' ( Sr, Al-Ra'd; 13:17)

   

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Masjid Al-Haram at night

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