It would appear that the purchase of health insurance isn’t “legal,” according to the tenets of Islam. The Economic Times reports:
At a seminar to deliberate whether insuring health was permissible under Islamic law Shariat, the Islamic Fiqh Academy (India) decided that availing such policies was illegal.
Why?
Representatives from around 300 Madrasas, including Darul Uloom Deoband, Jamiat Islami participated in the three-day meet, where they reached a conclusion that seeking insurance cover was only another form of gambling.
In a way, they have a point. When you buy an insurance policy, you are definitely betting—-and the odds are with the house.
So, I guess these clerics aren’t really meddling busybodies. They’re just protecting people from themselves—-rather like nanny-state liberals.
[HT WeStandFirm]
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