Iron

In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Why this verse is miraculous:
In His Divine Book, the Holy Quran, Allah, All-Mighty, says,
“Indeed We have sent Our Messengers with Clear Proofs and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance that mankind may keep up justice. And We have sent down Iron wherein is mighty power as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help Him and His Messengers in the Unseen. Verily, Allah is All-Strong, All-Mighty.” [LVII; 25]
The Clear Proofs mentioned in the above Quranic Verses are Divine Miracles that provide evidence of the truthfulness of Allah’s Prophets and Messengers, (PBUT). The Scripture is Allah’s Religion of Islamic Monotheism. And the Balance is the human mind, which is the essence of religious obligation. The ultimate goal is establishment of justice on the Earth. And the force of deterrence is Iron, in which there is great power and a lot of benefits for mankind.

Nowadays, astronomers believe that meteors and shooting stars are but heavenly shootings, of different sizes, and most of which are made of Iron. That is why Iron was the first metal known by mankind, because it comes pure from the heaven in the form of meteors and shooting stars, thousands of which come down onto the Earth’s surface every year. Some of these meteors and shooting stars weigh tens of tons; and one of them, discovered in America, weighed 62 tons and was made up of Iron and Nickel. And in Arizona a meteor caused a hole 200 meters deep and 1000 meters wide, and it contained tens of tons of Iron and Nickel.

Benefits of iron as mentioned in the verse:
The above scientific facts provide clear evidence of the accuracy of the Quranic description:
“And We have sent down Iron”, which means that Iron is sent down from the heaven by Allah, All-Mighty. But what is meant by the mighty power and the benefits referred to by above the Quranic words:
“wherein is mighty power as well as many benefits for mankind”?
It has been found out that Iron, which constitutes 1/3 of the Earth’s components, is the densest, most stable, most powerful, most flexible, most magnetic, and most pressure-resistant of all metals. It helps maintain balance and gravitational force of the Earth. It should be remembered that Iron is also an essential element of a great many living animals as well as plants, which absorb its compounds from the Earth’s soil. Not only that but also Iron-salts constitute a part of the blood cells of living creatures. In this context, reference should be made to the numerical conformity between the number of the Quranic Surah (chapter) that speaks about Iron, namely Surah 57, and its atomic weight, which is also 57.

In the year 1910, a conference was held to discuss affairs that have to do with minerals of the Earth. Members of the conference expressed their concerns about complete exhaustion of Iron by 1970! Reports were made about existence of this great mineral, confirming that it exists in large amounts in the Earth’s crust. But most recent studies, however, show that Iron constitutes 5% of the whole crust of the Earth and weighs, as estimated by some geologists, 750,000 million-million tons!
However, the interesting thing about Iron is that our human life as well as the life of all living things depends on it! This might seem incredible, but Iron really constitutes a part of our blood. The amount of Iron existing in the human body is only three grams the lack of which renders human life at risk.
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of Creations