Is the emission of semen that occurred as a result of friction with clothing while imagining intercourse with one's wife considered masturbation, and is there sin in it?
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Masturbation with any instrument is forbidden, whether by hand or otherwise, as stated by Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen. As for masturbation merely through mental imagination without using the hand or any other instrument, it has been mentioned in the referenced .
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