Don't you love the way he tries to convince me Islam is true and that it knew Iron came from the sky before scientists did - while sending me videos taking the piss out of Christianity.
LOL...
The verse in question means that Iron was sent down by GOD and it doesnt actually mean that iron came from space. This stupid claim has already been debunked.
his is an illogical premise. The word anzalna/anzala is used 88 times in the Quran. It is also used for
cattle: 39:06
garments: 7:26
food/sustenance: 10:59; 45:05; 2:57; 7:160
people of the book: 33:26
water/rain: 20:164; 16:10; 35:27; 14:32; 22:05; 25:48; 6:99; 16:65; 39:21; 20:53; 41:39; 31:10; 13:17; 22:63; 2:22; 27:60; 23:18; 78:14
None of these things come from outer space or heaven. Does it mean that cattle, garments, food, and the people of the book also come from supernovae? No, it doesn?t. So, why assume that surah 57:26 literally states that iron came from outer space? Why assume the literal meaning with respect to iron but the figurative meaning when referring to everything else? The only logical explanation for the use of the term ?anzalna? that is consistent with all its occurrences in the Quran is to denote something provided by a deity, mechanism unknown. To selectively assign ?origination from supernovae? to iron but not to cattle, garments, food, and the people of the book, without evidence as to why one should use the literal versus the figurative interpretation is mere supposition, or special mystical interpretation, and thus utter nonsense.
The truth is that most such Islamist claims are made by Islamists ignorant of prior knowledge by other peoples. The ?iron sent down from heaven? proposition is not distinct to Islam nor was the Islamic version the earliest. The ancient Egyptians referred to iron as ?iron from heaven?.
http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/ic/mse257/class_notes/iron_intro.html Thus the concept of iron from outer space/heaven/sky was already known to humanity thousands of years before Islam.
The Egyptians called iron 'the metal of heaven' or ba-en-pet, which indicates that the first specimen employed were of meteoric origin; the Babylonian name having the same meaning. It was no doubt on account of its rarity that iron was prized so highly by the early Egyptians, while its celestial source would have its fascination.
http://www.touregypt.net/science.htmCertainly the ancient Egyptians were aware of meteoritic iron, but uncomfortably for the archaeologists, the evidence suggests that by a very early date in their history they were already sophisticated enough to differentiate between different types of iron. Loadstones were called `res mehit ba', meaning `north-south iron', and Plutarch quotes Manetho as differentiating loadstones from non-magnetic iron, calling the former `Bone of Osiris', and the latter `Bone of Typhon', (being the Greek version of Set).3
Robert H O'Connell in 1983 translated the coffin text Spell 148, which refers to meteoritic impact as being integral to the conception of Horus. `?the blast of a meteorite such that gods fear, Isis awoke pregnant by the seed of her brother Osiris!?.5 Even earlier, in 1911, Wallis Budge translated a text from the time of Pepi II (circa 2278- 2184 BC) which speaks of `the iron which came from Set, and was in the forearm of Set; it transferred to the deceased the power of the eye of Horus'.6 As the constellation of the Great Bear was considered to be the abode of Set, we can reasonably conclude that at least one iron-bearing meteorite came from this direction early in the Old Kingdom. And if we were to conclude that the ascension of Horus came about during the unification of the two lands, we would be able to postulate that this unification came about during a period of meteoritic activity.
The evidence then, seems to support the notion that the ancient Egyptians were aware of iron, and probably viewed it as a heavenly substance.
http://www.gizagrid.com/body_egyptian_iron.htmlAs stated previously, this belief is also shared by the Mesopotamians.
The supreme god Anu personified a planet which had exploded; hence the fact that his name meant ?Heaven?, and hence the fact that meteoritic iron was known in Sumer as ?the essence of Anu?.
http://www.eridu.co.uk/Author/human_origins/AAS_Intro2/Sitchin_Message/sitchin_message.html
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