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Difference Between Takaful And Conventional Insurance

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After the researches, we had decided to choose the Islamic insurance, Takaful as our Islamic financial instrument and Conventional Insurance as the conventional product for comparison. The first fatwa that explicitly prohibited profitmaking insurance in its modern application and its related activities was made by Ibn Abdeen (a Syrian Scholar) in 1834. While opinions are vary among Muslim scholars, the overwhelming majority of them have concluded that conventional insurance contracts are unacceptable to Islam. There are a number of significant differences between both of these. Therefore, we will first compare by using the structured table as below.

The first difference would be the contract difference between Takaful and conventional insurance. …show more content…

Meaning, the operator is not selling risk coverage to participant and the participant himself is not buying any risk coverage from the operator. Operator is playing the role of fund manager on behalf of the participant. However, the risk is distributed among the participants who agreed to jointly assume the risk and operator is not undertaking risk. In essence, Islam does not reject the concepts of insurance. Most of the Muslim jurists agree that insurance which is based on the concept of pooling of losses does not contradict with the Shariah. Compensation to an unfortunate member and group responsibility is not only accepted but encouraged in Islam. On the contrary, there is a contract between two parties in conventional insurance where the risk is transfer from the insured to the insurer. The contract works when the first party agrees to undertake the risk of the other party in exchange of premium. Also, the other party promises to pay a fixed amount of money to the first party on the happening of indeterminate event with in a specific duration stated in

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