The Holy Quran 25:53 — Surah Al-Furqan

Arabic text

۞ وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ هَـٰذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَهَـٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًا وَحِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا

Translation

It is He (Allaah) Who has merged two seas (two masses of water), the one (rivers and lakes) being sweet and quenching, while the other (the ocean) is salty and bitter. He has created between them a barrier that acts as an impregnable (forbidden) veil (which prevents the two types of water from mixing even though they run into each other).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The meeting of rivers of sweet and salt water: in “Bayan al-Quran” the testimony of two reliable Bengali scholars is cited that from “Arakan” to “Chittagong” the river is such that its two sides appear as two rivers of entirely different nature. The water of one is white, of the other black.

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