| When human plays with the nature which was created in a precise system by Allah, as a result, that system will be disturbed in the form of disasters and drought… |
God be He exalted and blessed created the earth in a balanced system, and one of the great verses is: (And it is He who has let free the two seas (kinds of water): this is palatable and sweet, and that is salt and bitter; and He has set a barrier and a complete partition between them) (Sûrat Al-Furqân- verse 53).
Somebody may think that this verse is only to remind us with the graces of Allah, or as a scientific fact which was mentioned by the Qur’an before the modern science. But this verse is considered to be a good reminder with the importance of the area of “mouth of the river in the sea”.
So, the holy verse refers to God’s creation of that system to ensure a happy life for us, and to continue the movement of life and to continue the seas and rivers. But the human broke this rule and converted mouths of rivers from into the seas in order to supply the water to the Farmlands as human believed that that work is right…therefore what happened?.
Seas and rivers started to disappear!!That is what happened with the Aral Sea one the world’s fourth largest inland body of water. It started to recede and to drought. Look at the following satellite photo.
A satellite photo which was taken (in 2009) by the European space agency shows the boundary of the Aral sea “in green color”, and at the top in the square another taken photo (in 2005) as the sea was much larger than today….look at what the human made by the different wrong activities which polluted the environment. The source: ESA
We remember the following holy verse when we see that photo as God says :( Say (O Muhammad): “Tell me! If (all) your water were to sink away, who then can supply you with flowing (spring) water?”)(Sûrat Al-Mulk- verse 30).
Glory to Allah! If the scientists know that holy verse and they were aware about the importance of the area of the mouth where rivers meet with seas …this tragedy wouldn’t happen. As we see a whole sea to disappear and to drought. Human prevented to feeding that sea by the two rivers which were used to supply it for thousands of years without any disorder, but now this area is suffering from strong Sand storms and huge environmental pollution!! Some researchers made a suggestion to retransfer the Downstream of the river to the sea with a huge cost that is up to millions of dollars! Glory to Allah what might happen if they left God’s system without any intervention?
Also the environmental changes are caused by the wrong behavior of human by throwing dirt and by the excess luxury in everything…which caused rivers to drought. As all small rivers became drought in the last few years, the big rivers will be the same.
We can remember the holy Hadith by prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) when he told us about a sign for the imminence of the day of resurrection when he told us that one of these signs is the drought of the Euphrates River. Indeed, the amount of water in that river became too little and the river started to recede and the coming years will show us more and more receding for that river because of the drought and the global warming phenomenon.
Here we can ask a Question, who told prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) that the Euphrates River will recede? Or how could he know that the area of the meeting of rivers and seas is important? Allah almighty told him all of these unseen facts to be a proof that he is sincere.
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By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
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