Commercial insurance of all types is prohibited, whether it is life insurance, health insurance or insurance of one’s property. But it is permissible to deal with it when a person is forced to do so or when a person is compelled to take out health insurance.

Working for a company that transports documents and parcels is permissible, but if the company specialises in transporting unlawful things, such as delivering documents for Riba-based banks, or transporting alcohol, movies or music, then working for it becomes unlawful.

1. Lawful work should be in a permissible field and should not involve helping others to commit unlawful acts such as working in buying and selling, and rental of permissible things such as selling food, medicine, tools and equipment, and the like. It also includes working in teaching, medicine, engineering, electricity, carpentry, and manufacturing, and innumerable other permissible types of work. 2. Prohibited work includes working in Riba-based banks or commercial insurance companies, or carrying alcohol, or raising pigs, or writing down contracts of Riba, or equipping places for gambling, or selling things that it is thought most likely will be used for unlawful purposes, such as selling weapons to bandits, and other things that are regarded as prohibited and sinful, or helping in it directly or almost directly.