In the bustling city of Makkah, surrounded by skyscrapers and technology, stands a simple cube-shaped structure made of stone ...

During Tawaf, there is also a custom of touching and kissing the black stone placed on the eastern corner of the Kaaba. Muslims believe that Prophet Ibrahim and his son Ismail built the Kaaba in ...

Kissing is not universal among human beings and, even today, there are some cultures that have no place for it. This suggests that it is not innate or intuitive, as it so often seems to us.

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