and the two seas are not alike this is sweet very sweet and palatable – and this is salty bitter and from each you eat fresh meat and extract the ornament which you wear and you see the ship cleaving through it so that you may seek his munificence and in some way become grateful.
وما يستوي البحران هذا عذب فرات سائغ شرابه وهذا ملح أجاج ومن كل تأكلون لحما طريا وتستخرجون حلية تلبسونها وترى الفلك فيه مواخر لتبتغوا من فضله ولعلكم تشكرون