It was thought that the sense of feeling and pain was only dependent on the brain. Recent discoveries prove that there are pain receptors present in the skin, without which a person would not be able to feel pain. When a doctor examines a patient suffering from burn injuries, he verifies the degree of burns by a pinprick. If the patient feels pain, the doctor is happy, because it indicates that the burns are superficial and the pain receptors are intact. On the other hand, if the patient does not feel any pain, it indicates that it is a deep burn and the pain receptors have been destroyed.


The Qur’an gives an indication of the existence of pain receptors in the following verse:


Surely those who reject Our signs, We will cast them into the Fire. Whenever their skin is burnt completely, We will replace it so they will ˹constantly˺ taste the punishment... [Quran 4:56]


Prof. Tagatat Tejasen, Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, had spent a great amount of time researching pain receptors. When he came across this verse of the Qur’an, he initially could not believe that it mentioned this scientific fact more than 1,400 years ago. He later verified the translation of that particular Qur’anic verse and was deeply impressed by its scientific accuracy. At the 8th Saudi Medical Conference held in Riyadh on the Scientific Signs in the Qur’an and Sunnah, Prof. Tejasen publicly declared, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad (PBUH) is His Messenger,” and embraced Islam. Subhan Allah — just one verse of the Qur’an led him to accept Islam.


Many Scientists Converted to Islam