What is the Shar'i perspective on using images of animate beings and trading virtual goods on a global gaming platform that relies on reality simulation, involves financial exchanges with real money for virtual products, and aims to develop skills and provide an experience in the business world?
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The aforementioned project, which is a global platform combining entertainment, science, study, and business, and simulates reality with all its elements, including financial transactions with real money and virtual products aimed at gaining practical experience in the business world—there is no harm in it or in benefiting from what is earned from it, due to its inclusion of known permissible benefits. As for cartoon images that simulate living beings, their ruling has been detailed in number: 146730.
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