Fingerprints

 لَا أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

وَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالنَّفْسِ اللَّوَّامَة

أَيَحْسَبُ الْإِنسَانُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُ

بَلَىٰ قَادِرِينَ عَلَىٰ أَن نُّسَوِّيَ بَنَانَهُ
"I swear by the Day ofResurrection. And I swear by the self-reproaching  
person (a believer). Does man (a disbeliever) think that We shall not  
assemble his bones? Yes, We are Able to put together in perfect order  
the tips of his fingers:' 
(Soorah AI-Qiyamah 75:1-4)  


Al-Qurtubi and Zajjaj, in the comments on the above Verses, said:  
"Some people claim that Allah does not resurrect the death and is not  
able to reassemble the decayed bones. So Allah replied them that He is  
able to reassemble even the tiniest bones and that if He is able to do this,  
He is certainly able to reassemble bigger parts of the body."

Historical precedence: 
In 1823, the Czech anatomist, Purkinje, discovered the reality of  
fingerprints and found out that the very minute lines (fingerprints)  
that are on the top of the fingers (fingertips) are different from one  
person to another. He discovered three types of lines: bow-shaped,  
circular and square-shaped. These are called components because they are composed of different shapes.  

In 1858, the English scholar, William Herschel, alluded to the fact  
that fingerprints are different from one person to another. This makes  
the fingerprint an exclusive characteristic of each person.  

In 1877, Dr. Henry Faulds invented a way of putting fingerprints on  
a paper by using press ink.  

In 1892, Dr. Francis Calton established that the shape of
fingerprint  of each finger lives with its owner throughout his life. It never changes  in spite of any emergency. One of the scientists discovered that one of  the embalmed Egyptian mummies clearly preserved its fingerprints.

Scientific facts:

•Fingerprints of the fetus are formed in the fourth month of pregnancy and these fingerprints remain with throughout its life.  
• Fingerprints are a registration of flexures that are formed from the cohesion of the cutis layer with the skin.  
• These flexures differ from a person to another, and flexures of two persons are never the same.  
• Fingerprints have become an ideal way of recognizing the identity of people.

Scientific references: 

The British Encyclopedia  
says: "Early anatomists described the ridges of the fingers, but interest in modern fingerprint identification dates from 1880, when the British  
scientific journal Nature published letters by the Englishmen Henry  
Faulds and William James  
Herschel describing the uniqueness and permanence of fingerprints. Their observations were experimentally verified by the English scientist,Sir Francis Galton, who suggested the first elementary system for classifying fingerprints based on grouping the patterns into arches, loops, and whorls. Galton' s system served as the basis for the fingerprint classification systems developed by Sir Edward R. Henry, who later became chief commissioner of  the London Metropolitan Police .... "_  

It also said: Fingerprints afford an infallible means of personal  identification, because the ridge arrangement on every finger of  every human being is unique and does not alter with growth or age._Fingerprints serve to reveal an individual's true identity despite personal denial, assumed names, or changes in personal appearance resulting from age, disease, plastic surgery, or accident."

Teacher of Secondary specialized women's Islamic college "Khadichai Kubro": Guljaxon Saidova

Student of Secondary specialized women's Islamic college "Khadichai Kubro": M.Nigmatova