{"id":28499,"date":"2024-09-14T18:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=28499"},"modified":"2024-09-15T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T23:20:09","slug":"working-in-a-health-insurance-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/working-in-a-health-insurance-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Working In A Health Insurance Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Fatwa ID: 07430<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by Mufti Ousman Haye<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">I have been offered a project coordinator position at Kaiser Permanente, which as you may know is a health insurance company. I wanted to know if this is considered a halal source of income or not. Awaiting your reply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><u><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><u><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/u><u>:<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Firstly, it should be understood that all types of insurances are impermissible for 3 reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">1. Maysir (Gambiling): All kinds of insurance is like playing with chances. They tell you, pay this much money, then if this happens to you we will give you this much. If the insured person is afflicted with any loss or damage, he might receive more than what he has paid for or might receive less. The same goes with the insurance company.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">This is pure gambling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">2. Riba (Intrest): The amount of damage that were to happen, if any is impossible to quantify beforehand which will lead to interest. If the Insurance Company receives premiums worth more than the value, then that will be usury and interest. If there is any loss and the loss is worth much less than the total premiums that he has paid to the insurance company, such a person would be guilty of undertaking a usurious and interest based transaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">3. Gharar (Future uncertainty): The obligation of payment from the side of the insurance company is based on a future contingency. Therefore it is uncertain if anything will happen to the or not and whether the insurance company will ever make any type of payment. All kinds of insurance are based on uncertainty to the most extreme kind. Insurance companies and those who sell insurance refuse to insure cases except where there is clear uncertainty in whether or not <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">the condition being insured will happen or not. In other words, the condition being insured against must have a possibility of happening or not happening. All types of transactions which involve uncertainty are forbidden in Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The Prophet (May peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited from all types of transactions which involve Gharar (Future uncertainty) {Sahih Muslim:3807 and Jami-Al Tirmizi: 1215)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Sayyiduna Abd Allah ibn Mas\u2019ud (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him &amp;amp; give him peace) has cursed the one who accepted usury, the one who paid it, the witness to it, and the one<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">who recorded it. (Tirmizi:1191)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">In light of the above and many other narrations, scholars have ruled that it would be unlawful for a Muslim to accept employment in a bank or any such institution whose dealings are primarily centred on interest-based<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">transactions, such as an insurance company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Therefore, employment in an insurance company would be unlawful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0646\u0647\u0649 \u0631\u0633\u0648\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) \u0639\u0646 \u0628\u064a\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0635\u0627\u0629 \u0648 \u0639\u0646 \u0628\u064a\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0631\u0631<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">{\u0635\u062d\u064a\u062d \u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645 \u0631\u0642\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b:\u0663\u0668\u0660\u0667 \u062c\u0662\u060c \u0635\u0661\u0660\u0660\u0662\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\u0649 \u0648 \u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0645\u0630\u064a \u0631\u0642\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b: \u0661\u0662\u0661\u0665\u060c \u062c\u0662\u060c \u0635\u0666\u0660\u0668\u060c<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\u0649}<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0644\u0639\u0646 \u0631\u0633\u0648\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) \u0622\u0643\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0628\u0627 \u0648\u0645\u0648\u0643\u0644\u0647 \u0648\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0643\u0627\u062a\u0628\u0647<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">{\u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0645\u0630\u064a \u0631\u0642\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b: \u0661\u0661\u0669\u0661\u060c \u062c\u0662\u060c \u0635\u0666\u0660\u0660\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\u0649}<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u0628\u0639 \u0645\u0627 \u0644\u064a\u0633 \u0639\u0646\u062f\u0643<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">{\u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0645\u0630\u064a \u0631\u0642\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062b: \u0661\u0662\u0661\u0667\u060c \u062c\u0662\u060c \u0635\u0666\u0660\u0669\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0634\u0631\u0649}<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah (\u0639\u0632 \u0648 \u062c\u0644) knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Mufti Ousman Haye<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 07430 &nbsp; 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