القراءة المتوازية

Know that a barzakh is an affair that separates two things and never occupies either extreme, like the line separating shade from sunlight, and as in His saying, exalted is He: ‘He released the two seas, meeting together; between them is a barzakh they do not overstep.’ ‘They do not overstep’ means that neither mingles with the other. Even if sense perception cannot distinguish them, the intellect judges that a barrier separates them. That intelligible barrier is the barzakh. If it is perceived by the senses, it is one of the two things, rather than the barzakh. Any two things, when adjacent, require a barzakh that is neither one of them and contains the power of each.