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Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and everyone on the earth
prostrates to Allah, and the sun and moon and stars and the moun-
tains, trees and beasts and many of mankind?... ( Surat al-Hajj: 18)
Everything in the heavens and every creature on the earth prostrates
to Allah, as do the angels. They are not puffed up with pride. (Surat
an-Nahl: 49)
This superstitious belief leads the Hindus to concoct irrational
myths on mountains and rivers according to which they have life and
soul. The Ganges is the best known river Hindus revere and the
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Himalayas are their most sacred mountains. In the perverse Hindu be-
