The Insight
Quran 75:3-4 states: 'Does man think that We will not reassemble his bones? Yes, We are Able to put together even the very tips of his fingers.' The verse specifically highlights the fingertips, not the hand or the skeleton. Modern forensic science, formalised by William Herschel in 1858, confirmed that every person's fingerprints are completely unique. No two individuals in all of human history have ever shared the same fingerprint pattern. The Quran's emphasis on restoring the 'very tips' implies awareness that the fingertip carries something uniquely individual, a fact invisible to the naked eye and unknown to 7th-century observers.