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Did Jaques Cousteau convert to Islam?





I am not sure yet where the ultimate source of this claim is to be located, but I know of at least two Muslim publications which have disseminated (and continue to do so) that Jaques Cousteau became a Muslim.

· Waqf Ikhlas

The Reasons Why They Become Muslims ([1], [2]), volume 16, part 3 of the Waqf Ikhlas series:

 

21 June, 1995 Copyleft c Waqf Ikhlas, Istanbul, 1995.

 

Permission to reprint & distribute is granted only

if this heading included, and the text is not modified

in any way, shape or form to alter the intended meaning.

WAQF IKHLAS

 

 

PEOPLE WHO CHOSE ISLAM

 

 

 

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."

 

Side remark: To my information, even though Mr. Jaques Yves Cousteau was a researcher and won many awards, he was no professor and never earned a doctorate, and it is also interesting to observe how this above conversion hoax blends in with the other made up conversion of Dr. Maurice Bucaille.

Another Cousteau conversion page, which probably is based on rumors like the below publication...

· Al-Furqan-Ta-Ha

Subject: Amazing Undersea Discovery Leads French Oceanographer To Islam!

Allahu Akbar

From: m a m

Date: 1997/03/02

Message-Id: <5faqhr$b2c@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam

 

 

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, ARRAHMAN, ARRAHEEM

 

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds

Heavenly Salutations and Peace be upon the Messenger of Allah

and upon his family, his noble companions

and all those who follow them in righteousness until the Day of Judgment

 

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatu ULLAHi wa Barakatuhu...

 

"Qura'ns Confirmation Of An Amazing Undersea Discovery Leads

============================

French Oceanographer To Islam"

================

 

The famous French oceanographer Mr Jacques Yves Cousteau, who has

spent his lifetime on undersea discoveries and is considered an

authorithy on undersea exploration has embraced Islam after his

amazing undersea discovery was confirmed by the Holy Qur'an the last

and final revealed guidence of Allah (God Almighty) for the whole of

Mankind and Jinns.

 

One day somewhere in deep ocean, Mr Jacques Yves Cousteau was doing

some undersea exploration when he discovered that within the salty

sea water there were several spring of sweet palatable water.

 

What amazed him most was the fact that the sweet water of the springs

was not mingling with the salty water of the sea. For a long time he

tried to find plausible excuse for this phenomena, but to no avail.

 

One day when he mentioned it to a Muslim Professor who told him this

phenomena simply followed Allah's command as clearly explained in the

Holy Qur'an. He then read to Mr Cousteau the following verses from

the Holy Qur'an:

 

"It is He (Allah) Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water:

One palatable and sweet, and the other salty and bitter; yet has He

(Allah) made a barrier between them, a portion that is forbidden to

be passed"

(Sura 25 Al-Furqan: Verse 53)

 

"And He (Allah) made a separating bar between the two bodies of

flowing waters."

(Sura 27 An-Naml: Verse 61)

 

"He (Allah) let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting

together: between them is a barrier which they do not transgress."

(Sura 55 Al-Rahman: Verse 19:20)

 

Hearing this, Mr Cousteau said that surely the Qur'an is a divine

Book and embraced Islam. (This was reported in Al-Furqan-Ta-Ha

Publishers, London).

 

______________________________________________________________

| |

| Wise men and women speak because they have something to say. |

| Fools speak because they have to say something. |

| |

| O' Allah let me be among the wise. |

|______________________________________________________________|

 

If only the magazine Al-Furqan and the poster of the above article had heeded this advice about the wise men and fools..., he would not have spread this fairytale. It is completely made up.

Jaques Yves Cousteau is not a Muslim.

Original letter of clarification from the Cousteau Foundation (in French) (photocopy).

English translation by Dr. William F. Campbell:

Fondation Cousteau

 

Monsieur Charles TUCKER

11A Chemin de Pennachy

69230 ST GENIS LAVAL

 

 

FC/DC

Paris, November 2, 1991

 

Sir,

 

We have received your letter and we thank you for your interest in

our activities.

 

We state precisely to you that Commander Cousteau has not become a

Muslim and that this rumor passes around without foundation.

 

Very cordially,

 

 

Didier CERCEAU

chargй de mission

 

Jaques Cousteau died Wednesday morning, June 25, 1997. His last fairwell was held at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Some further and true information about Cousteau: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

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