WHAT IS THE MIRAGE?

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 04)
Verses 41-42DEEDS THAT ARE MIRAGES VERSE NO.39ِ40

      MIRAGE is an illusion of land or water where none exists. By definition; it is an effect caused by total reflection of light at the upper surface of shallow layers of hot air in contact with the ground, the appearance being that of pools of water in which are seen inverted images of more distant objects.

      The mirage usually happens near horizon, and is caused by non-uniform atmospheric refraction of light. The most common is the WATER MIRAGE that has decieved so many desert travellers. It occurs over land that is warmer than the overlying air. Light travels faster in the lighter and warmer air near the surface, than in the progressively cooler air above. The effect is to curve the light upward. Light from the sky appears to come from below the horizon, producing the illusion of a lake of standing water. This type of mirage also occurs over water that is warmer than the overlying air.

1ِCHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE

2ِATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, BY: J.H.RUSH

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

 

      In the second metaphor, the likeness of the deeds of the non-believers, is said to be comparable to the darknesses in the depths of a great sea:ِ

      ``Or like darknesses in depths of a vast ocean, covered with wave over wave, above which are clouds.''

      So much so that he who has been afflicted in such a darkness, when stretches out his hand, he is almost unable to see it.

      The light of reality and truth in our life is the light of faith, without which all the space around us will be dark. Irrecoverably dark. Dark even amid the blaze of noon!

      The three kinds of darknesses that are mentioned herein this verse; may refer to the darkness of deed.

 

      Some commentators have understood them to be the darknesses that are stages of ignorance. That is to say:ِ

      They don't know, and yet do not know that they don't know.

      They don't know, and yet they think they know.

      They don't know, but are aware of their ignorance.

 

 

 

 

 

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