Kissing of hands
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Kissing of hands forbidden[edit]
"The kissing of hands hath been forbidden in the Book. This practice is prohibited by God, the Lord of glory and command."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, par. 34)
"The kissing of hands"
- (Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, item IV.D.1.y.viii, under "LAWS, ORDINANCES AND EXHORTATIONS" -> "Miscellaneous Laws, Ordinances and Exhortations" -> "Miscellaneous Laws and Ordinances" -> "Prohibitions")
"In this Book [the Kitáb-i-Aqdas] He...prohibits...the kissing of hands..."
- (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 214)
"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.)"
- (Notes to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, no. 57)
