Why did they become Muslim? CAPTAIN (JACQUES) COUSTEAU (French)

 

CAPTAIN (JACQUES) COUSTEAU (French)



[In France Islam has been spreading at a high velocity among people
who have made fame in various areas. The number of people who
have abandoned Christianity and chosen Islam have reached one
hundred thousand already. This score has been confirmed by the
Archbishop of Paris, the highest Catholic rank in France.



It is noteworthy that people who have preferred Islam are not
only from among workers and civil servants but also from among
people renowned in every respect.



Among people who have chosen Islam is Captain Cousteau, whom the
whole world closely knows for his explorations about life under
water.



As the groundswell of embracing Islam was spreading among France's
universal celebrities, Captain Cousteau, the world's most eminent
undersea explorer, announced that by accepting Islam he had made
the most correct decision of his life.



Captain Cousteau, who has revealed the secrets of oceans one by
one with the films that he made and which are being televised
world over in a program sub-headed The Living Sea, said that what
actually prompted him to choose the Islamic religion was, after
observing that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean
did not mix with each other, his seeing that the same phenomenon
was written in the Qur'an al-karim which had been revealed fourteen
hundred years before.]



Captain Cousteau told of the event that had caused him to become
a Muslim, as follows:



"In 1962 German scientists said that the waters of the Red
Sea and the Indian Ocean did not mix with each other in the Strait
of Bab-ul-Mandab where the Aden Bay and the Red Sea join. So we
began to examine whether the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and
the Mediterranean mixed with each other. First we analyzed the
water in the Mediterranean to find out its natural salinity and
density, and the life it contained. We repeated the same procedure
in the Atlantic Ocean. The two masses of water had been meeting
each other in the Gibraltar for thousands of years. Accordingly,
the two masses of water must have been mixing with each other
and they must have been sharing identical, or, at least, similar
properties in salinity and density. On the contrary, even at places
where the two seas were closest to each other, each mass of water
preserved its properties. In other words, at the point where the
two seas met, a curtain of water prevented the waters belonging
to the two seas from mixing. When I told Professor Maurice Bucaille
about this phenomenon, he said that it was no surprise and that
it was written clearly in Islam's Holy Book, the Qur'an al-karim.
Indeed, this fact was defined in a plain language in the Qur'an
al-karim. When I knew this, I believed in the fact that the Qur'an
al-karim was the 'Word of Allah'. I chose Islam, the true religion.
The spiritual potency inherent in the Islamic religion gave me
the strength to endure the pain I had been suffering for the loss
of my son."