Abu Eesa at his new blog Alternative Entertainment has some thoughts on insurance. He makes the usual distinction made by the scholars between mutual insurance (permissible) and commercial insurance (generally considered to be impermissible) and then proceeds to discuss some of these objections. Leaving aside the question of whether commercial insurance is or is not...Read More

In a department store yesterday, a sales assistant was helping me with a product; he needed to check the price and when he got back to me, he went to ring through the transaction. In the interim, a woman had gone to the counter, products on hand ready to buy. Technically I was there first...Read More