What is the ruling on acting out hypothetical examples, and does it fall under lying?
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The questioner : I went to school, and the school...
The Shaykh : Hypothetically, this is it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, no, not estimation, but hypothetically. Regarding all the inheritance shares... examples. If we say, "A person died, leaving behind so-and-so, and so-and-so, and so-and-so," and there is no dead person or anything of the sort, do we say this is lying? There is no lying in acting out examples. There is no lying in acting out examples. It is a narration about something that has occurred. For this reason, some people who said that acting in plays is permissible if it is not attributed to a specific person said: This is because acting is imitation. Just as you give an example with your tongue, give an example with actions. But if you attribute it to a person and say, "So-and-so said this" in the acting, it becomes lying. As for merely narrating a story you imagined and used as an example, that is not lying. Yes.
The Shaykh : Hypothetically, this is it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, no, not estimation, but hypothetically. Regarding all the inheritance shares... examples. If we say, "A person died, leaving behind so-and-so, and so-and-so, and so-and-so," and there is no dead person or anything of the sort, do we say this is lying? There is no lying in acting out examples. There is no lying in acting out examples. It is a narration about something that has occurred. For this reason, some people who said that acting in plays is permissible if it is not attributed to a specific person said: This is because acting is imitation. Just as you give an example with your tongue, give an example with actions. But if you attribute it to a person and say, "So-and-so said this" in the acting, it becomes lying. As for merely narrating a story you imagined and used as an example, that is not lying. Yes.