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مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ
اس میں نہر سویز اور نہر پاناما کی پیشگوئی ہے۔ فرمایا دو سمندر قریب قریب ہیں لیکن ان کے درمیان خشکی ہے۔ ایک دن وہ مِل جائیں گے۔ ان کی علامت یہ ہے کہ ان میں سے موتی اور مونگا نکلتا ہے۔ یہ دونوں چیزیں سویز اور پاناما سے بکثرت نکلتی ہیں۔ اور دونوں نہروں سے بحیرہ قلزم اور روم کو ایک طرف ملا دیا اور دوسری طرف بحر اوقیانوس اور بحر الکاہل کو ملا دیا ہے۔
'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.
3
اس میں نہر سویز اور نہر پاناما کی پیشگوئی ہے۔ فرمایا دو سمندر قریب قریب ہیں لیکن ان کے درمیان خشکی ہے۔ ایک دن وہ مِل جائیں گے۔ ان کی علامت یہ ہے کہ ان میں سے موتی اور مونگا نکلتا ہے۔ یہ دونوں چیزیں سویز اور پاناما سے بکثرت نکلتی ہیں۔ اور دونوں نہروں سے بحیرہ قلزم اور روم کو ایک طرف ملا دیا اور دوسری طرف بحر اوقیانوس اور بحر الکاہل کو ملا دیا ہے۔
c
25:54; 27:62; 35:13.
4059
Commentary:
See next verse.
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'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.
بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ
25:54; 27:62.
25:54; 27:62.
Commentary:
"The two bodies of water" referred to in the preceding verse may be the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea on the one hand and the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean on the other, particularly the former two seas. The verse embodies a great prophecy which was remarkably fulfilled in the latter half of the nineteenth century when the Suez and the Panama Canals were constructed, 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, in an age of new and great discoveries and inventions in the material world. It was in the fitness of time that, concurrently, equally great discoveries should have been made in the spiritual world, the fulfilment of the above prophecy being one of them. Or البحرین (the two bodies of water) may signify the physical and spiritual sciences. In this sense of the word the verses would mean that the two sciences—natural laws and Divine revelation, were mistakenly considered to be at logger heads, and a barrier seemed to have kept them apart, till, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the great Divine Reformer of the age, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, succeeded in lifting that barrier and by his powerful writings unfolded the mighty truth that, instead of being antagonistic, these two sciences were corroborative of, and complementary to, each other, the one being the Work of God, and the other His Word. In this way the two seas were made to join each other.
d
25:54; 27:62.
4060
Commentary:
"The two bodies of water" referred to in the preceding verse may be the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea on the one hand and the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean on the other, particularly the former two seas. The verse embodies a great prophecy which was remarkably fulfilled in the latter half of the nineteenth century when the Suez and the Panama Canals were constructed, 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, in an age of new and great discoveries and inventions in the material world. It was in the fitness of time that, concurrently, equally great discoveries should have been made in the spiritual world, the fulfilment of the above prophecy being one of them. Or البحرین (the two bodies of water) may signify the physical and spiritual sciences. In this sense of the word the verses would mean that the two sciences—natural laws and Divine revelation, were mistakenly considered to be at logger heads, and a barrier seemed to have kept them apart, till, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the great Divine Reformer of the age, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, succeeded in lifting that barrier and by his powerful writings unfolded the mighty truth that, instead of being antagonistic, these two sciences were corroborative of, and complementary to, each other, the one being the Work of God, and the other His Word. In this way the two seas were made to join each other.
a
25:54; 27:62.
وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ
یعنی بڑی بڑی آبنائیں بنا دی جائیں گی جیسے آبنائے پانامہ اور آبنائے سویز۔
52:7; 81:7.
Commentary:
The verse signifies that great seas and oceans would be made to flow into one another by means of canals; or their mouths would be dug wide open so as to make large ships ply in them. The reference may be to the Panama and Suez canals. The substitution of the word فجرت in the present verse for سجرت in the 7th verse of the preceding Surah is also worthy of note.
c
81:7.
1629
那时大海大洋将借助运河连结起来; 或河口要拓宽, 让大船往返其间。这里可以指巴拿马运河和苏伊士运河。
5
یعنی بڑی بڑی آبنائیں بنا دی جائیں گی جیسے آبنائے پانامہ اور آبنائے سویز۔
c
52:7; 81:7.
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Commentary:
The verse signifies that great seas and oceans would be made to flow into one another by means of canals; or their mouths would be dug wide open so as to make large ships ply in them. The reference may be to the Panama and Suez canals. The substitution of the word فجرت in the present verse for سجرت in the 7th verse of the preceding Surah is also worthy of note.
c
81:7.
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At that time great seas and oceans will be made to flow into one another by means of canals; or their mouths will be dug wide open so as to make large ships ply in them. The reference may be to the Panama and Suez Canals.