What is the ruling on imagination and daydreams, and is imagining fictional characters that do not exist in reality forbidden, like "drawing and sculpting, as they imitate Allah's creation"?
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What is forbidden is imagining forbidden images and committing immoral acts. As for imagining something permissible, it is not forbidden. A Muslim should occupy himself with righteous and beneficial deeds instead of desires and imaginations.
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