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‘Their ears and their eyes and their skins will bear witness against them as to what they had been doing.’ The Holy Qur’an (41:21)
Over a millenium before our discovery of DNA, the Holy Qur’an described a time when people’s skin– an inanimate thing –would betray their crimes and ‘bear witness’ against them.
In the 1870s and 1880s, Henry Faulds, a Scottish medical missionary, first suggests the use of fingerprints in forensic investigations. He even sent his ideas in writing to Charles Darwin.
Fingerprints – the part of the hand containing the most DNA – are used for identification purposes for the first time in colonial India in 1880 by Sir William Herschel after he sees Indians using fingerprints to sign contracts.
Scotland Yard officially adopted the use of fingerprints in 1902.
Fingerprints were first used as forensic evidence in 1910 in the murder trial of Thomas Jennings, who would go on to be sentenced to death.
From nothing but eyewitness accounts in the Arabian deserts to fingerprints being used as forensic evidence in modern-day courts of law, the veracity of the prophecy and its fulfilment speaks for itself.
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