What is the ruling on standing for greeting and kissing, and kissing the hand and bowing in greeting, and what is the evidence for the permissibility of kissing and embracing?
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It is permissible to stand to greet an arriving person, and it is permissible to kiss the hand of one's parents, a scholar, or a just ruler. However, bowing as a greeting is never permissible, because it is in the meaning of rukoo’ (bowing in prayer), and rukoo’ is not permissible except to Allah Almighty.
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