01-21-2009, 01:45 PM
There is a hadith that says if you feel no shame then do as you wish. I think if it were really something that was needed to show reverence or whatever the point behind it is supposed to be, then my guess is that we would have seen the Prophet doing something similar at one point or another. Maybe Quran in book form was not around, but people were writing and recording Surahs onto various materials. Why didnt the Prophet kiss start kissing them? My guess is because there is no need.
And while the Prophet never forbade it he didnt condone it either. But sometimes new Muslims or weak Muslims see people doing something and think this is part of religion and follow along and start attaching a significance that it doesnt deserve.