Are there detailed fatwas that specify the ruling on manufacturing robots and their limits from an Islamic perspective, especially given the existence of international laws that do not prohibit their manufacture for non-harmful purposes, and expectations of their manufacture for sexual purposes, as is the case in Japan?
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The answer depends on jurisprudential rules such as: cooperation in righteousness and piety, that means have the rulings of their ends, harm is to be removed, and blocking the means [to evil], in addition to previous fatwas concerning engaging with sex toys and manufacturing robots in the form of animate beings.
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