THE IDENTITY HIDEN IN THE FINGER PRINTS

While it is stated in the Quran that

Yes, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers .   A l – Quran 

The emphasis on fingerprints has a very special meaning. This is because shapes and details on everyone's fingerprint are unique to each individual. Every person who is alive or who has ever lived in this world has a set of unique fingerprints. Furthermore, even identical twins having the very same DNA sequence have their own set of fingerprints. Fingerprints attain their final shape before birth and remain the same for a lifetime unless a permanent scar appears. That is why fingerprints are accepted as a very important proof of identity, exclusive to their owner. The science of fingerprints has been used as a non-erring identity determination method. r

Everyone, including identical twins, has a unique fingerprint. In other words, people's identities are coded at their fingertips. This coding system may also be compared to the barcode system that is used today.

However, what is important is that this feature of fingerprints was only discovered in the late 19th century. Before then, people regarded fingerprints as ordinary curves without any specific importance or meaning. However in the Qur'an, Allah points to the fingertips, which did not attract anyone's attention at that time, and calls our attention to their importance. This importance has only been fully understood in our day.

The validity of the technique to establish identity by means of fingerprints (AFS Applicant Fingerprint System) has been confirmed by various police organizations over the last 25 years and is a legally approved method. No technology of identity verification in our time gives such effective results as fingerprints. Using fingerprints to establish identity has been used in legal processes for the last 100 years and possesses international acceptance. [ 2 ] 

SCIENTIFIC  FACTS :

1. Finger prints are formed in the embryo at the fourth month, and remain fixed and distinct all along man’s life. 
2. Finger prints are a record of curvatures that arise due to the fusion between the epidermis with the dermis.
3. These curvatures differ from one person to another, and they never match or correspond among all humans.
4. Finger prints have become the best method to identify persons.  In 1858, the English Scientist, William Herschel, pointed out that  finger  prints differ with the difference of their holders, thus rendering them as distinctive feature evidence for each person.
5. Finger prints are considered as distinctive feature evidence for each person

Physicians conducted wide anatomical studies on a large number of people of different nationalities and ages, and they were confronted with the scientific fact to which they bowed their heads, and in submission they testified that no one is ever able to make similar all finger prints scattering all over the universe not even among two persons. 

Here it is noticed that the verse speaks also of the recreation of all finger tips, and not only one. The word fingertips refer to all hand fingers. So shaping them again after being scattered all over the universe on Resurrection Day is a sign of Allah’s almighty power. This is but one side of Allah’s ability to resurrect people on Doomsday with their identifiable parts after annihilation. 

Therefore, it is not surprising that fingertips are one of Allah’s signs that contain the secret of His creation, and certify to the entity of the person without any confusion, thus becoming the most genuine testimony in this world and the Hereafter.  The finger print is also a demonstration of Allah’s greatness of shaping such lines on a very small space no more than few square centimeters. 

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 [ 1 ]   A l – Quran 

 [ 2 ]   Scientific Miracle in the Quran  by Harun Yahya   [  Page Number  182  & 183  ]