{"id":205013,"date":"2025-08-19T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-galamsey-is-haram-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:21:03","slug":"ghana-galamsey-is-haram-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-galamsey-is-haram-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Galamsey Is Haram &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Over 1,447 years ago, the Qur&#8217;an commanded:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;And do not do mischief on the earth, after it has been set in order.&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 7:56)<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">This verse calls for the protection of our environment and warns against actions that disturb its natural order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In another verse, Allah says: &#8220;Do the disbelievers not realise that the heavens and earth were once one mass, then We split them apart? And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 21:30)<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">And:<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.gpt-outer-ad-container.gpt-inread-outer-ad-container.inread-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Allah has created from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190553.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,447 years ago, the Qur&#8217;an commanded: &#8220;And do not do mischief on the earth, after it has been set in order.&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 7:56) This verse calls for the protection of our environment and warns against actions that disturb its natural order. In another verse, Allah says: &#8220;Do the disbelievers not realise that the heavens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,42655,8108,4508,4509,4265,257,254],"class_list":["post-205013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-galamsey","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-haram","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}