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hope, and unfolds His mercy. He is the Protector, the Praiseworthy.
(Surat ash-Shura, 28)

THE BARRIER BETWEEN THE TWO SEAS
It is He Who has unloosed both seas – the one sweet and refreshing,
the other salty and bitter – and put a dividing line between them, an
uncrossable barrier. And it is He Who created human beings from
water and then gave them relations by blood and marriage. Your Lord
is All-Powerful. (Surat al-Furqan, 53-54)
He Who made the earth a stable dwelling place and appointed rivers
flowing through its midst and placed firmly embedded mountains on it
and set a barrier between the two seas. Is there another god besides
Allah? No indeed, but most of them do not know it! (Surat an-Naml, 61)
He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier be-
tween them they do not break through. (Surat ar-Rahman, 19-20)

SHIPS SAILING ON THE SEA
Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah's blessing so that
He can show you something of His Signs? There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. When the waves hang
over them like canopies, they call on Allah, making their religion sin-
cerely His. But then when He delivers them safely to the land, some of
them are ambivalent. None but a treacherous, thankless man denies
Our Signs. Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no
father will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah's promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude you
and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah. Truly Allah
has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant rain and knows
what is in the womb. And no self knows what it will earn tomorrow
and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Aware. (Surah Luqman, 31-34)
It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And you
see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His bounty, and
so that hopefully you will show thanks. (Surat an-Nahl, 14)