{"id":4576,"date":"2004-09-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/23\/2004-09-23-egyptian-cleric-says-yoga-is-against-islamic-law\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-23-egyptian-cleric-says-yoga-is-against-islamic-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/23\/2004-09-23-egyptian-cleric-says-yoga-is-against-islamic-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Cleric Says Yoga is Against Islamic Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.deccan.com\/World\/WorldNews.asp?#Yoga's%20against%20Islamic%20law:%20Egypt%20mufti \">Source<\/a><\/P><P>JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, September 20, 2004: The growing enthusiasm for yoga in Egypt has received a setback with a mufti reportedly issuing an edict declaring it un-Islamic. The edict signed by mufti Ali Gomoa, considered the highest theological authority, says that &#8220;yoga is an ascetic Hindu practice that is forbidden for use in any manner &#8212; neither for exercise or for worship,&#8221; local media reported quoting an Al-Hayat report (a Saudi-owned, Londdon-based newspaper). &#8220;It is an aberration,&#8221; whose practice in any form is &#8220;forbidden under Islamic law,&#8221; the edict says. Yoga centres are said to have sprung up at all the tourist resorts in Egypt and are said to be very popular among Western tourists. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceJERUSALEM, ISRAEL, September 20, 2004: The growing enthusiasm for yoga in Egypt has received a setback with a mufti reportedly,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}