Indication about the uniqueness of our fingerprints


The discovery of our fingerprints:

Dr. Henry Faulds was a Scottish physician. Some time in the late 1870s he got involved in an archaeological digging in Japan. During that time he discovered imprints in ancient pottery shards and became interested in the science of human fingerprints. Later, British scientist Sir Francis Galton further worked on the discovery and in late 1880s, gave us the idea that human fingerprints are unique. That's the first time when we heard about this fact behind our fingerprints. 

In the Quran, which was revealed over 1400 years ago, there was indication about this clearly. In the response to unbelievers who doubt how Allah could reconstruct the body and bone on the day of judgment, Allah mentioned in the Quran in Chapter: 75, Verse: 3 to 4 - 


"Do people think that their bones can not be reassembled? Indeed, We are most capable of restoring even their very fingertips!"


It did not make sense back then for sure, but believers just believed all the verses as they were told. Now with the advancement of human knowledge, we can correlate the indication after so many years to fit the concept within our limited thought process. The Quran talked about identifying every individual person by their fingertips when needed after life. Now we know that fingerprints are unique to human being - who are living at the moment, and we are gone by this time!
 

There was a nice talk by Dr. Zakir Naik on this topic in Malaysia back in 2018. He talked about this briefly along with many other interesting things. Here is the video clip from Dr. Zakir Naik where he talked about this topic in particular.



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