Is the financial transaction of endowment insurance - which includes monthly premiums invested in legitimate commercial activities, and the premiums and profits are recovered after a specified period, with a life insurance component paid in the event of death before the end of the period - permissible or not?
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The company takes the installments and invests them in the project, but the contract includes a condition that the company guarantees the capital and the installments paid to it. This is impermissible, as the transaction is a prohibited (partnership) due to the guarantee of capital. The life insurance policy further corrupts and prohibits it, because the company acts as the Mudarib (investing partner), and if it guarantees a specific amount upon the death of the owner of the capital, the condition is forbidden, and the transaction devolves into a loan with interest, which is usury (riba).
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