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[nawazshahzad]

Dear Readers

Out Of all the minerals of the planet earth, water is the most abundant one.Nearly three-fourth of the earth???s surface is covered with water and it is also contained in large amounts in the atmosphere and in the lithosphere. It is also the major component of living matter.The basic water cycle is quite familiar. Heat of the sun evaporates water which is thus transferred from hydrosphere to the atmosphere. The evaporated water cools and condenses when it reaches high altitudes.Clouds are formed and after precipitation as rain or snow, water is returned to the hydrosphere. This is the most massive process of any kind on the earth, consuming more energy and more material than any other.The rain water as we know comes into contact with gases and rocks and the process of erosion thus gradually turns fresh water into salt water. These two bodies of fresh water and salt water thus constantly move in a gigantic global cycle. They are free to intermingle and do intermingle and yet they are kept apart by the physical laws of heat and gravitation which serve as a barrier in between two types of water. This colossal phenomenon of the hydrological process and the barrier between two segments of hydrosphere is a glorious manifestation of Allah???s ???Rabubiyat ???but for this the life on the land could not exist.

The Quran say:

Afaraaytumu almaa allathee tashraboona. Aantum anzaltumoohu mina almuzni am nahnu almunziloona Law nashao jaAAalnahu ojajan falawla tashkuroona - Quran Chapter number 56 Verse 68-70 "http://www.parvez-video.com/quran/summary/surah_al_waqiah/index.asp"

???Do you not observe the water which you drink? Do you bring it down from the clouds or do we? If it were Our will, We could make it salty ( and bitter) then why do you not give thanks????

It means that it was the divine plan not to allow salinity to accumulate in all parts of hydrosphere because in that case life on the land could not continue further. When one ponders over the ways and means provided by Allah for the sustenance of His creation, he is bound to proclaim Raab Ul Alaameen (Sustainer of the Universe).

Regards
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Nawaz Shahzad