مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَیْنِ یَلْتَقِیانِ، بَیْنَهُما بَرْزَخٌ لا یَبْغِیانِ، فَبِأَیِّ آلاءِ رَبِّکما تُکذِّبانِ، یَخْرُجُ مِنْهُمَا اللُّؤْلُؤُ وَ الْمَرْجانُ(الرحمان: 19-22)
:It is narrated in Sunni sources from Ibn Abbas that
«فی قوله مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَیْنِ یَلْتَقِیانِ قال علی و فاطمة بَیْنَهُما بَرْزَخٌ لا یَبْغِیانِ قال النبی(ص) یَخْرُجُ مِنْهُمَا اللُّؤْلُؤُ وَ الْمَرْجانُ قال الحسن و الحسین» Suyuti, 1404: 6/14; Haskani Hanafi, 1411: 2/284
A similar interpretation is quoted from Imam Sadiq (AS) who said: “Ali and Fatima are two deep seas, neither of which encroaches on the other, and from these two seas have emerged pearls and corals, namely Hassan and Hussein” (Qummi, 1367: 2/344). Of course, it should be said that “the verses of the Quran have an external and an internal meaning. For this reason, a verse may have several meanings, and what is mentioned in these narrations is from the inner meaning of the Quran, which has come from the infallible leaders and does not contradict its external meaning,” as some of them have also been mentioned in Sunni sources.
