"My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that need through Haj to kiss a stone. A stone is a stone but the vacuum was filled and it became the holiest object. I have performed Haj and seen the devotion of people braving stampedes only to kiss that stone."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Asghar Ali Engineer

#Kissing Quotes #People Quotes #Islam Quotes

“I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay when he went back to George B. McClellan in the fall of 62, we have to work with what we have.”
“If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.125, Penguin
“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.”
“How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.
“It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”
“Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.”
“But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.”
“So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.”

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