The Criterion
25. Al-Furqān
الفرقان
Page #364
25:53
وَهُوَ
الَّذِي
مَرَجَ
الْبَحْرَيْنِ
هَذَا
عَذْبٌ
فُرَاتٌ
وَهَذَا
مِلْحٌ
أُجَاجٌ
وَجَعَلَ
بَيْنَهُمَا
بَرْزَخًا
وَحِجْرًا
مَّحْجُورًا
wa-huwa lladhī maraja l-baḥrayni hādhā ʿadhbun furātun wa-hādhā milḥun ʾujājun wa-jaʿala baynahumā barzakhan wa-ḥijran maḥjūran
It is He who merged the two seas: this one sweet and agreeable, and that one briny and bitter, and between the two He set a barrier and a forbidding hindrance.
— Ali Quli Qarai
It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed.
