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What is the ruling on health insurance where the subscriber pays a specific amount to the insurance company for one year, and the company covers his treatment regardless of the costs and in any hospital he chooses?

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Insurance contracts are a recent development and are of two types: cooperative insurance, which is based on donations and mutual cooperation in righteousness, and is permissible. The second type is fixed-premium (commercial) insurance, which is a probabilistic exchange contract marred by (uncertainty), Riba (usury), and Qimar (gambling), and leads to neglecting wealth and a lack of reliance on Allah. For this reason, Fiqh councils have unanimously ruled it unlawful, with the exception of cooperative insurance.

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