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 Are you kidding me about iron being an extraterrestrial element? That is a bunch of nonsense!!

Iron In the Qur’aan

In Soorah Al-Hadeed the 57th chapter of the Qur’aan in Ayaat 25 AllahAllah states:

 “Wa anzalnaal hadeed, feehi ba’sun shadeed, wa manaafi’u linaas (I have revealed (sent down) iron which has great force in it and benefit for humans)”

 The term anzalnaa has been interpreted as "revealed" from the early generation of interpreters because it indeed has the meaning of "to reveal". Yet, even when AllahAllah uses the term anzalnaa, for example in “Wa anzalnaa ilaykal Qur’aan lidh dhikr (We have revealed to you the Qur’aan for remembrance)” in reference to the Prophet Muhammad about the Qur’aan being revealed to him, it did actually involve coming down since it was sent down from the Lawhil-Mahfoudh, to Baitul-‘Izzah in the first heaven, and from there the angel Jibreel brought verses down according to the command of AllahAllah to the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam (sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) so there was a process of coming down.

 Now modern science, in looking at the issue of iron in the world, came to the conclusion that the origin of iron was from the core of the earth because the core of the earth is approximately 35% iron and then nickel. This is the molten core of the earth and as you go farther away from the core you get less and less iron until you get some 5.6% iron near the crust of the earth. Still it is amongst the highest elements in the crust percentage- wise, but it still appears to come from the inside outward. So where does the idea of the coming down of iron fit in? Again, the conclusion was it was revealed. That is, knowledge of its use was revealed to human beings. AllahAllah gave them the capacity to understand and to utilize iron. This was the explanation given.

 The Sun's temperature is 27,000,000º Fahrenheit (i.e. 15,000,000º Celsius) at the center.
The Sun's temperature is 27,000,000º Fahrenheit (i.e. 15,000,000º Celsius) at the center.

 However, more modern research came to the conclusion that in fact iron couldn’t have begun in the core of the earth! It couldn’t have begun there! Why? Because the sun of our solar system, which is the hottest location in the solar system, in its own core only reaches - according to their calculation - approximately 15,000,000 degrees Celsius. Of course this is quite hot, however it is not hot enough to produce iron! The most common element in the universe is hydrogen, which is the first element in the periodic table, while helium is number two and everything else is a combination containing some fusion of the atoms of hydrogen and helium to produce other elements. Iron is way down the line. It is number 56 and as such, the heat which is necessary had to be in the billions of degrees! They estimate someplace it had to be around 5 billion degrees to produce iron. So our sun could not produce iron. So then where did the iron come from? This was the question puzzling researchers.

 Surface of the Sun  In the late eighties, studying stars, they came to realize of course that there were huge stars much greater than the Sun – our star – which did in fact in their degeneration, their evolution or development, generate the kind of heat that could produce iron when they went nova or super-nova. They exploded and iron shot out into the universe in the form of meteorites etc. Most of the meteorites which hit the Earth are made mostly of iron. So in looking back, scientists in the late eighties began to re-examine their view of the development of the Earth and they came to the conclusion that in fact what happened was the Earth - which was a produce of the evolution of the Sun - was like a ball of ash and that the meteorites hit the surface of the Earth and in hitting the surface it increased the heat of the Earth because with the impact there was energy released. So meteor showers hitting the Earth increased the heat enough to melt that iron, not produce iron, but to melt that iron and it would then sink through the surface towards the center of the Earth and became concentrated in the core of the earth and that’s how they explain it now.

 You can find this in Stephen Hawking’s book called “A Brief History of Time” a best-seller from one of the biggest atheists out there and another book called ”The First Three Minutes” by Steven Weinberg. Both of them present the exact same picture of how iron came to the core of the Earth. So from that, we see iron actually coming down to the Earth as AllahAllah described it.

 Additionally, iron is the most stable element. The bonds which hold its atomic structure together are the strongest bonds of all of the other elements so it does have that “ba’sun shadeed”. And of course its benefit is that it being most of the Earth’s core it produced the basis of the gravitational pull of the Earth which holds the atmosphere and the biosphere around the Earth. Without that iron core to produce the gravitational field, we would not have any atmosphere on the Earth and no life would survive on the Earth! Critical! Furthermore, when you go into human beings there is hemoglobin, and when you go into plants chlorophyll. These are the essential elements that transform energy from material sources, from the Sun etc. to chemical energy in our bodies which allow the cells to grow. In everything, both human beings and plants, iron is essential for their development and this was described in the Qur’aan some 1400 years ago.

 These are among the signs, for those who would reflect, that there is in fact a God.”

Taken from a speech by Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips called “ 7 Habits Of Truly Successful People” Sound Knowledge Audio Publishers

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