If someone were to intentionally imagine the prophet nude, is it a sin? With the word intentional I don't mean the intention of making fun of him, or disrespecting him, or sexual pleasure or pleasure of any sort but intentional in the sense that it is his free choice that he imagines a nude human being but he imagines it without feeling anything about it. How big is the sin?
Please don't confuse this with waswas and insinuations of shaytan.
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Often times anxiety and other disorders can cause unwanted and intrusive thoughts which we have no control over.
Please, write to our “Islamic Scholar” section for a precise answer to your question.
Seek a counseling assessment for the fears of imagination which you experience.
As Salam Alaykum brother,
Thank you for writing to us. Congratulations on reverting to Islam. May Allah bless you and make your path easy.
I will keep this short as you requested and try my best to address your question, although I am a bit confused concerning your intentions.
Please forgive me. You stated you had the habit of watching pornography in the past, and you deeply fear sins of imagination.
You want to know if purposely imagining people, even prophets, nude with no sexual feeling attached is a sin.
For this Islamic matter, I will kindly suggest that you please submit your question to our section “Ask the Scholars”.
As I am not an Islamic scholar, I do not want to mislead you nor misinform you with an incorrect category of sin.
Looking at your question from a perspective relating to other things such as imagination and art, it would be more comprehensible.
The artist who drew the human form may do as you described.
However, imagining a prophet nude for no reason other than you chose to is a bit unsettling.
It would also be disturbing if one said they would like to visualize my mother or my child nude -“just because”.
This is due in part to the boundaries of sacredness and privacy.
Brother, I kindly suggest that you do contact our “ask the Scholar” section as well as seek an assessment by a therapist for your deep fears of “sinful imagination”.
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Often times anxiety and other disorders can cause unwanted and intrusive thoughts which we have no control over.
It is quite common but can be very scary when it happens.
I am not saying this is what is it, I am only giving suggestions for you to seek an assessment, based on what you said, in order to assist you with your concerns.
Brother, insha’Allah please do write to our “Islamic Scholar” section for a precise answer to your question as well as seek a counseling assessment for the fears of imagination which you experience.
We wish you the best,
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