Quran and Modern Science(part 2) by Dr. Zakir Naik
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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.” [AI-Qur’an 75:3-4]
When 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 Judgement, 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 who 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.” [AI-Qur’an 4:56]
Prof. Tagata Tagasone, a scientist from 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. Tagasone 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”.
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