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Is masturbation permissible while imagining a foreign woman or an imaginary woman, knowing that refraining from it causes psychological and physical distress, and that this matter results from a medication used to treat a benign tumor that cannot be stopped?

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We ask God to heal you and enrich you. We have previously explained the prohibition of masturbation and its harms. If many scholars forbid imagining a foreign woman while a man is having intercourse with his wife, then doing so with masturbation is even more forbidden. We advise you to fear God Almighty and to marry a second wife if you can, to protect yourself from what is unlawful.

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