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Nor are the two [kinds of] seas alike: this one is extremely sweet, pleasant to drink and that one is salty, extremely bitter. Yet from each, of the two, you eat fresh meat, namely, fish, and obtain, from the salt - and it is also said, from both of them - ornaments which you wear, namely, pearls and coral. And you see, you sight, the ships therein, in each of the two [seas],ploughing through (mawākhira, in other words, tamkhuru'l-mā'a, meaning, 'it cleaves it as it makes its way through it, coming and going by the same wind) that you may seek of His bounty, exalted be He, through commerce, and that perhaps you may give thanks, to Allahu ta’ālā for this [bounty].