FINGERPRINTS
“Does man think that We Cannot assemble his bones? Nay, We are able to
put Together in perfect order The very tips of his fingers.”
[Al-Qur’an 75:3-4]
Unbelievers argue regarding resurrection taking place after bones of
dead people have disintegrated in the earth and how each individual
would be identified on the Day of Judgment. Almighty Allah answers that
He can not only assemble our bones but can also reconstruct perfectly
our very fingertips.
Why does the Qur’an, while speaking about determination of the identity
of the individual, speak specifically about fingertips? In 1880,
fingerprinting became the scientific method of identification, after
research done by Sir Francis Golt. No two persons in the world can ever
have exactly the same fingerprint pattern. That is the reason why police
forces worldwide use fingerprints to identify the criminal. 1400 years
ago, who could have known the uniqueness of each human’s fingerprint?
Surely it could have been none other than the Creator Himself!
PAIN RECEPTORS PRESENT IN THE SKIN
It was thought that the sense of feeling and pain was only dependent on
the brain. Recent discoveries prove that there are pain receptors
present in the skin without which a person would not be able to feel
pain. When a doctor examines a patient suffering from burn injuries, he
verifies the degree of burns by a pinprick. If the patient feels pain,
the doctor is happy, because it indicates that the burns are superficial
and the pain receptors are intact. On the other hand if the patient does
not feel any pain, it indicates that it is a deep burn and the pain
receptors have been destroyed. The Qur’an gives an indication of the
existence of pain receptors in the following verse:
“Those who reject Our signs, We shall soon Cast into the Fire; As often
as their skins Are roasted through, We shall change them For fresh
skins, That they may taste The Penalty: for Allah Is Exalted in Power,
Wise.”
[Al- Qur’an 4:56]
Prof. Tagatat Tejasen, Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Chiang
Mai University in Thailand, has spent a great amount of time on research
of pain receptors. Initially he could not believe that the Qur’an
mentioned this scientific fact 1,400 years ago. He later verified the
translation of this particular Qur’anic verse. Prof. Tejasen was so
impressed by the scientific accuracy of the Qur’anic verse, that at the
8th Saudi Medical Conference held in Riyadh on the Scientific Signs of
Qur’an and Sunnah he proclaimed in public: “There is no God but Allah
and Muhammad (pbuh) is His Messenger.”