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The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

  • Author:
  • Bahá’u’lláh

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í World Centre, 1992 edition
  • Pages:
  • 254
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Pages 198-199
 

73. Take heed lest, when partaking of food, ye plunge your hands into the contents of bowls and platters. # 46

 
This prohibition was defined by Shoghi Effendi as “plunging one’s hand in food”. In many parts of the world it has 199 been customary to eat with the hands from a communal bowl.