Quran Reveals About Uniqueness of Fingertips
With billions of human population on earth, no one is
identical to another. Not only face but Every person’s voice, Eye Retina, Ear
curves ridges, and tongue print is as unique as a fingerprint. Even identical
twins have different fingerprints. Although fingerprints did not mean much to
the people in ancient Arab at the time of descent of the Quran. But look what
Quran says almost 1400 years ago in Surah Qiyamah verses 3-4.
“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.”(Quran 75:3-4)
Identity of Fingerprints
Why does the Quran, while talking about the determination of the identity of the individual, express specifically about fingertips?. It is because of the reason which now we know that fingerprint is unique to every person. Every person has a set of unique fingerprints. Not only this, even identical twins having the substantially same DNA sequence have their own set of fingerprints.
Data Concealed In Fingertips
Thus we can say that people’s identities are coded at their
fingertips. This coding can also be compared to the barcode system that is used
today, which was invented by the inspiration of the speciality of difference in
human fingerprints. It is only in the late 19th century that fingerprinting
became the scientific method of identification, before then, people thought of
fingerprints as ordinary curves without any particular significance or meaning.
Proof Of Identity
Fingerprints achieve their ultimate shape before birth and remain the same for a lifetime unless a permanent scar develops. That is why fingerprints are accepted as a vital proof of identity. Fingerprints are visible on the fingers of an unborn baby in the womb of its mother when the pregnancy is between 14 and 17 weeks.
This identity card cannot be forged, and it affixes a unique
signature to whatever it touches. Thus God tells us that the resurrection will
be in such a fine detail.
