FINGERPRINTING

17. FINGERPRINTS 

Fingerprints are infallible means of identification. In addition to their value in the Apprehension of criminals, fingerprints can ensure personal identification of Humanitarian reasons, such as in cases of amnesia, missing persons, or unknown Deceased. Fingerprints are invaluable in effecting identifications in tragedies such has Fire, flood, and vehicle crashes. In criminal matters, besides establishing the identity of the arrested person, fingerprint records provide a history of known offenders, or indicate whether a person is an offender or not. Fingerprints, the characteristic elevated ridge patterns on the fingertips of humans, are unique to each individual. The fingers and toes, the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, are covered with a system of ridges, which form certain patterns. The term dermatoglyphics is applied to both the configurations of the ridges, and also to the study of fingerprints. Beside the medico legal importance of the ridge patterns of fingerprints, characteristic dermatoglyphics abnormalities frequently accompany many chromosomal aberrations.

Comments:

1. Since the chromosomal abnormalities are the genetic indicator in the formation of aberrant ridges, one can say that the pattern of ridges of the skin of the finger tips are not a kind of haphazard formations but a pre coded arrangement built within the genetic codes of human beings.
2. Of all the body parts, the next impossible component to replace would be the “fingertips” of a man. The author of the Holy Qur’an, the Supreme Creator, warns us not to under estimate His capacity for its recreation.
3. If the original formation of these ridges were pre coded, its recreation from a known code would be a scientifically comprehensible possibility.

Quran 75:4

“Does man think that we cannot assemble his bones? Yes, we are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers.”

 In the era when the above verse was revealed, the marvel of replacing the fingertips could have sounded like a mere term of expression. Today, we know what it really means. Who else could have spoken with such confidence, His Supernatural ability of: “putting together in perfect order, the tips of our fingers”, in the sixth century, than the One who had created the genetic code that formed these ridges? How did Mohammad (PBUH) know about the 20th century scientific fact known as “the Finger print”? The fingerprint is the only solid ID for humans, and yet Mohammad (PBUH) mentions that 14 centuries ago!