371. Branding the snout of men as a means of identification

In this verse (68:16) of the Quran Allah talks of Him branding the snout of each man with a unique identity. Experts in forensic science at present use fingerprints to identify persons because each one has a unique fingerprint, and this is the reason fingerprints are registered in documents. 

A technology known as photo face has now been invented to precisely identify a person with the help of scanned images of his nose, replacing finger prints.

But the Quran through its verses 68:15, 16 talks of branding men on their snouts for identity purposes.

The fingerprints are easily visible to us, but if the identity mark on our snouts is visible to us, the answer is an emphatic no! 

Though the mark of identity is not visible to us, the researchers have now discovered the same. 

Researchers at the University of Bath have now discovered the nose of criminals and extremists helps in identifying them.

They say with the help of the various sizes of their nostrils precise details of them can be derived at, by using the photo face technology, where the nose of the person is scanned at different angles, and these scanned images are subjected to analysis by six different methods known as Roman, Greek, Nubian, Haak, Snub, Turn Off.

Then with the help of a computer software the details of the tip of the nose as well as its width is examined. Dr.Adrian Evans says identifying a person is easier done by scanning the nostrils of men than by using the finger prints, because just as in the case of fingerprints the snouts of people have some unique features in each person.

The phrase ‘We brand the snouts of men’ has been properly handled, proving the Quran is the word of God.