u/Biosophon

I'm realising that scholars have taken the notion of what is "gambling" literally too far.

The abstraction that any transaction where money changes hands based on an unknown future outcome might not be the essence of the "gambling" that is prohibited in the Quran.

The most common-senae understanding of the prohibition of gambling would imply a prohibition on the specific detrimental activity that involves the thrill of making money based on an unknown future outcome that can equally end in loss, and it is addictive and ruinous for that very reason. Any extrapolation or abstraction of gambling away from that specific kind of addictive and ruinous activity is irrational.

And it is equally absurd that people who end up ruining their and others' lives doing day-trading in halal stocks are completely fine from a religious perspective whereas those who buy pet insurance because the cost of veterinary care is exorbitant are somehow invovled in gambling.

What do the people here think about pet insurance and "gambling"?

The mods of r/AcademicQuran deleted my perfectly sound comments on https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/s/ePIKJxweMn citing a lack of sources.

I appealed it in the mod-mail but they could not give a single sound justification for their action nor were they able to engage accurately with the arguments i presented. You can read my comments and the exchange yourself in the screens.

The sub modded by u/Rurouni_Phoenix and u/chonkshonk purports to be academic but removes academically sound comments while retaining such clearly low-effort polemical posts and comments.

This is simply more evidence of the "flexible" rigor and unsound reasoning plaguing that sub which would have no real academic value if it were not for the published academics who participate in it and some rare users that indeed make informative and/or unbiased posts and comments in good faith, indeed sincerity and rigor are not difficult to identify for those who value them.

Pet insurance is "gambling"?

"Polemical Quran": How neutral is Academic Quran?