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57. The kissing of hands hath been forbidden in the Book. # 34 |
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In a number of earlier religious Dispensations and in certain
cultures the kissing of the hand of a religious figure or of a
prominent person was expected as a mark of reverence and
deference to such persons and as a token of submission to
their authority. Bahá’u’lláh prohibits the kissing of hands
and, in His Tablets, He also condemns such practices as
prostrating oneself before another person and other forms of
behaviour that abase one individual in relation to another.
(See note 58.)
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