Is it permissible to keep plastic dolls after detaching their heads and keeping them separate from the body?
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It is permissible to possess an incomplete image, which is one from which a part essential for life has been removed, such as the head or similar parts. This is the view of the majority of scholars. It is not sufficient to remove the eyes, eyebrows, hands, or legs; rather, the removed limb must be one without which life cannot continue, such as decapitation, effacing the face, or piercing the chest or abdomen. There is no harm in possessing a doll's body separated from its head, according to the general consensus of scholars, and similarly, a head separated from the body, according to the majority of scholars.
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