Science in the Glorious Quran: The Source of Iron

“وَأَنزَلْنَا الْحَدِيدَ فِيهِ بَأْسٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَنَافِعُ لِلنَّاسِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ مَن يَنصُرُهُ وَرُسُلَهُ بِالْغَيْبِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيز” (الحديد:25).

“And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind…” (Qur’an, 57:25).

Modern astronomical findings have disclosed that the iron we have on earth has come from giant stars in outer space. As a heavy metal, iron is only produced in the nuclei of big stars where the temperature required is higher than what we have in our solar system. When the amount of iron exceeds a certain level in a giant star, the star explodes and meteors containing iron are scattered around the universe until they get attracted by the gravitational force of a celestial body like the earth.

Therefore, the iron we have on the Earth was sent down from space as stated in the above verse of the Glorious Qur’an. How did the prophet know this scientific fact?

A meteoroid during its passage through the atmosphere into meteors (left). The iron we have on Earth has come from the space in the form of a meteoroid (right)