الرحمن
Ar-Rahman
Surah 55
Verse 20
الرحمن
The Beneficent • madinah
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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
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55:20
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
He has made the two bodies of water flow. They will one day meet.
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English - Short Commentary Translation
He has made the two bodies of water flow. They will one day meet;[2927]
'The two bodies of water' may be the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, or the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, particularly the former two seas. The verse embodies a great prophecy which was remarkably fulfilled by the construction of the Suez and the Panama canals, the former linking the first two seas and the latter the mighty Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The world had to wait for thirteen long centuries to see the fulfilment of this prophecy. Or, 'the two bodies of water' may signify the physical and spiritual sciences. Or, the natural laws and Divine revelation, which mistakenly considered to be mutually antagonistic, are corroborative of each other, the one being the Work of God and the other His Word.