all praise is due to allah the creator
of the heavens and the earth
you
you
so this is a is well enzyme al-hadid so
to adidas or number 57 of the Quran and
Allah uses the word we sent down iron we
sent down iron now the thing of it is
Allah speaks about creating lots of
different things in the Quran but for
all of them uses a verb called halakha
or to create he created the heavens and
the earth he created life and death he
created he created he created but when
he speaks of iron
he didn't say he created it he said he
sent it down he sent it down and
scholars of the past were grappling with
this issue why because you know the
words of God are very precise this is
our belief so when someone will argue
what he sent he sent it down he meant he
created it know if he meant he created
it he would have said he created he
didn't mean that he meant specifically
that he sent it down right and so you
find in this in the last century in the
twentieth century geologists coming to
certain agreements about the beginnings
of the earth one of them being that iron
is not part of the original earth it
actually came to the earth in the form
of meteors and was very deep into the
core of the earth at the Earth's center
is a massive ball of iron known as the
core an outer core of molten iron swirls
around it
next is the mantle slow-moving
hot rock eighteen hundred miles thick in
contrast the crust the part we live on
is thin
in fact it's broken into pieces called
plates
4.6 billion years ago a continual rain
of meteorites pounded the molten earth
each strike brought with it more Rock
making our planet bigger and scattering
metals over the surface
then a giant asteroid struck
it's massive iron core didn't stop on
the surface it's sank towards the center
and it attracted all the Earth's metals
to it as it went
the asteroids lighter rocky debris when
spinning around the earth the fragments
were drawn together by gravity within a
year they formed our Moon
that's why the moon has no metal at its
core and it's why metal is rare in the
Earth's crust it arrived much later in
meteorites from outer space right
so the word used are we sent down iron
becomes a very accurate depiction of the
reality of iron because it was set down
a long field of boredom LT had ordered a
and I did a lap on top you know