PAIN RECEPTORS IN THE SKIN

     PAIN RECEPTORS IN THE SKIN

It was thought that the sense of feeling and pain

was dependent only on the brain. Recent discoveries

however 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 a clear indication of the existence

of pain receptors in the following verse:

“Those who reject

our signs,

We shall soon

cast into the Fire;

as often as their skins

are roasted through,

We shall change them

for fresh skins,

that they may taste

the Penalty:

for Allah is Exalted

in Power, Wise.”

                         [Al-Qur’an 4:56]

Prof. Tagatat Tejasen, Chairman of the Department

of Anatomy at Chiang Mai University in Thailand,

has spent a great amount of time on research of

pain receptors. Initially he could not believe that

the Qur’an mentioned this scientific fact 1,400

years ago. He later verified the translation of this

particular Qur’anic verse. Prof. Tejasen was so

impressed by the scientific accuracy of the Qur’anic

verse, that at the 8th Saudi Medical Conference

held in Riyadh on the Scientific Signs of Qur’an and

Sunnah, he proudly proclaimed in public:

         “There is no God but Allah and

          Muhammad (pbuh) is His Messenger.”